According to AFL-CIO spokesman Marty Marks, a vote in the Senate on the Forced Unionism Card Check bill is “imminent.” ”Everything has kind of been waiting on Al Franken being seated in Minnesota,” Marks said during a visit to Somerset, Massachusetts. “Once that happens things are going to move pretty quickly.”
Interestingly, Marks also said that Sen. Arlene Specter’s vote was being counted upon to get the requisite 60 votes. “He’s part of our formula for 60 votes. We believe he’s going to come through,” Marks said of the Pennsylvania legislator.
After union lawyers’ attempt to get the NLRB to block the vote failed, CWA union bosses backed down and departed AT&T workplace rather than face workers’ vote
Mark Mix Voices His Concerns On Tennessee’s WDEF News 12 as Big Labor Prepares for a Card Check Election at the Chattanooga Volkswagen Plant.
Last December, a majority of Mayo Clinic workers successfully voted to strip United Steelworkers (USW) union officials of power to compel dues payments