Tag Archives: union organizing

Feb08

Union attorney wins committee OK for NLRB post despite concerns over card check

By Craig Shearman, VP, Government Affairs PR | Published: February 8, 2010

A Senate committee last week voted to confirm a prominent labor union attorney as a member of the National Labor Relations Board despite concerns from NRF and others that he might attempt to implement key provisions of the controversial Employee Free Choice Act union organizing bill administratively rather than waiting for Congress to decide whether to [...]

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Posted in: Public Policy Also tagged AFL-CIO, card check, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, congress, Craig Becker, EFCA, Employee Free Choice Act, Harry Reid, Johnny Isakson, labor relations, National Labor Relations Board, National Retail Federation, NLRB, nrf, Scott Brown, SEIU, Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Service Employees Interational Union, Steve Pfister, Tom Harkin, union, unionization |

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Jul08

An update on card check legislation

By Rob Green, VP, Government Relations | Published: July 8, 2009

Posted in Public Policy

Yesterday, Al Franken was sworn in as the junior Senator from Minnesota, giving Senate Democrats 60 votes in the upper chamber of Congress, the magic number needed to overcome Republican filibusters on controversial legislation. This means that new life may have come to card-check, a bill that came to a screeching halt in April after [...]

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