Bush Poised to Veto Long-Sought Labor Reform

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Bush Poised to Veto Long-Sought Labor Reform

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted April 23, 2007.

For years, companies have been keeping workers from exercising their legal rights to organize and exacerbating America's income and wealth inequality. A new bill could help reverse that trend, but does it stand a chance against Bush's veto pen?

One of the most important bills for working Americans of the last 10 years is likely to go down in defeat, even though Democrats control Congress. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is an anti-union-busting measure that would restore the right to form unions, a right working people have enjoyed mostly on paper since the "Reagan revolution" stacked the deck against workers trying to organize. The House passed the bill last month, but it's widely expected to be defeated in the Senate, and if it does survive, it will almost certainly fall to George Bush's veto pen.

If EFCA is defeated, it will carry little or no political cost, largely because America's corporatocracy has done a bang-up job of framing the debate. A coalition of big business groups conducted a wildly misleading poll, one that gave respondents the (false) idea that the bill will diminish rather than protect workers' rights -- specifically, their right to a fair vote about whether to unionize. They've taken that spin and synchronized it across the whole of the conservative communications infrastructure -- from business-funded think tanks to right-wing blogs, to the Wall Street Journal editorial page to lawmakers walking the halls of Congress.

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[AuntPatsy]

1. The fight to outlaw working class form unions occurred from the onset

of the first one set in place, how someone can view unions as completely useless in today's obvious lack of business accountibility towards it's workers is beyond the pale, granted there has been abuse from those higher up the chain as in all monetary ambitions which hurt unions early on...

But to ignore the good unions have done in the past and could in the future for millions of Americans is nothing more than class warfare, something that surely doesn't get enough attention.

K&R

Sad that your right, more than likely this bill would see a quick veto..