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Card Check May Fall to Death by Negotiation: Costco, Starbucks and Whole Foods may seem unlikely to win the affection of their fellow retailers over their proposal for compromise on the Employee Free Choice Act, or card check bill, but they may just have begun the process of gutting the proposal. Costco, Starbucks and Whole...; Tags: Card, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Retail Company, Negotiation, EFCA, Retail, Mike Duff; Blog posts 2009-03-24
SEIU Targets Banks for Union Push: The Service Employees International Union has painted a bullseye on America's banks, drawing a particular bead on Bank of America. The labor group wants to help tellers and office workers at B of A and other big banks to unionize, rallying support this week for the Employee Free Choice Act,...; Tags: Bank, Union, Financial, SEIU, Service Employees International Union, Labor Group, EFCA, Lerner, Financial Services, Alain Sherter; Blog posts 2009-07-13

EFCA stalled: Senate defeats legislation to change process of how employees vote on whether to join a union: Legislation proposing to change the current policy dictating how employees vote to unionize is stalled, for now. In June, the U.S. Senate blocked a procedural motion that prevented HR 800/S. 1041, the Employee Free Choice Act EFCA, from becoming law. Senators voted 50 to 48 to defeat this legislation (under...; Tags: Sen., U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-08-01
Obama's Coming Battle Over Union Elections: Battles lines are already being drawn between President-elect Barack Obama and C-Suites. The drumbeat is going out, as if on cue, to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for labor unions to organize companies. The EFCA passed the House of Representatives last...; Tags: Worker, Obama, Calls, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-11-28
Gathering strength, moving ahead: Progress isn't just possible in the 110th Congress, it's being made When it comes to recent developments in Congress, it's hard to know where you're going unless you remember where you've been. Take the Employee Free Choice Act EFCA, for example. Organized labor, lawmakers and activists across the...; Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, teacher, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate; Research articles 2007-10-01

EFCA Back in Congress: With Democrats in control of Congress, labor unions have another chance to make unionizing as simple as signing a card, a move which business advocates are already challenging as an assault on secret ballots, reports Reuters.; Tags: U.S. Congress; Research articles 2007-03-01
NALC Endorses Steve Young for 68th AD: GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- Steve Young, candidate for the 68th Assembly District spoke about issues important to postal workers before the National Association of Letter Carriers of Local 1100...; Tags: NALC; Research articles 2009-06-13