Of Labor and Power and Political Money Posted on Aug 21, 2007 by Bret Jacobson Under the header “Unions rebound as Republicans falter”: The signs are all around: Passage in the House, and near passage in the Senate, of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow workers to join a union by signing a card rather than going through what labor advocates consider the onerous process of an election; and a genuine sense that Democrats, on the cusp of real power, will owe their allegiance to labor rather than the party centrists, or New Democrats, who dominated the party during the Clinton presidency. Categories: