Praise the Old Ones, I hope so!
The hyperleftosphere is whining about the Democrat’s “Epic Bail!” on the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (one example here).
Related, The Mad Rocket Scientist served up this lin to the EFF that I believe could be the consolation prize to the unions
Obama’s “pro-transparency” administration seems to have left union members in the dark.
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According to the Department of Labor, the changes are meant to “permit unions to delay costly development and implementation of any necessary new accounting and recordkeeping systems and procedures.” An AFL-CIO attorney echoed that sentiment: “From our perspective, the only interest served by this rule was to harass unions.”
Where have I heard this before? Oh, yes! Back in 2003 the AFL-CIO claimed it would cost organized labor more than $1 billion to comply with the increased transparency requirements. The real cost of compliance for the AFL-CIO: Just $54,150.
These rules weren’t meant to harass unions. They were meant to help workers find out more information about their unions.
So, no Card Check, but the unions can hide the movment of member money and union management decisions.
If the drop of EFCA and the acceptance of the above mentioned fogging rights both turn out to be true, I guess we have positive identification of where the true interests of the unions lie.
EFCA’s probably gone dormant, but some other labor laws like “Protecting America’s Workers Act” will go through in its place, and it’s probably misnamed as well. Maybe it could be better called “Screwing America’s Employers”.