“It’s not going to happen now,” [Democrat Sen. Sherrod] Brown said on WVIZ radio in Ohio.

The Hill reports that the Republican landslide last November swept away any hope “supporters of EFCA”  had for rewriting pro-labor union legislation that “might make it more palatable and allow it to be passed in a modified form.”

The National Labor Relations Board has threatened to sue the states of Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah over recently passed state constitutional amendments that require secret-ballot elections before a company can be unionized.

The board says the states can’t override federal law that gives workers the option of the so-called card-check method of organizing, which unions favor but many employers oppose. …

The amendments to the four states’ constitutions were approved Nov. 2 by voters in those states. The amendments have already taken effect in South Dakota and Utah and are expected to become effective soon in Arizona and South Carolina.

These amendments were never expected to hold up since they run smack into federal law. But they serve as a good bellwether for how strongly the public opposes mandatory card check. South Carolina’s amendment passed with 86 percent of the vote. South Dakota’s garnered 79 percent support. Likewise, the NLRB’s threat should serve as an indication of just how obsequious the board has become.

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From the CWA:

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I wonder if this is in response to a union grievance citing the AFL-CIO’s employees right to offices with windows. I wouldn’t put it past them.

At the same, only a few minutes ago the AFL-CIO’s Trumka told ABC’s TopLine Webcast that they were working on getting EFCA passed before the election. Of course, it is more likely that we’ll see some semblance of EFCA “passed” by the National Labor Relations Board.

You put your support for card check in, you pull your support of card check out, you put your support for card check in and you get the union endorsement.

From the AP:

Cal Cunningham said in an interview with The Associated Press that he supports elections as the sole way for there to be unions created, but opposed so-called “card check” organizing. He clarified in a later interview that he would be open to hearing arguments about “card check” but felt it could not pass. The labor-backed idea would allow workers to form a union by signing cards instead of by secret ballot.

The Teamsters recently endorsed Cunningham.