The United States labor movement is poised to push the Democrat-led congress to swiftly pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). A key feature of the EFCA is a "card check" system that allows a prospective union organizer to enter a shop, hand a worker a union sign-up card and then watch him or her vote "yes" or "no" for union formation. Without a secret ballot, the worker/voter is totally open to intimidation and threats.
Meanwhile, we shift to our nation's capital. Today, Democrats in the senate will cast a vote to determine if Sen. Joe Lieberman will be unceremoniously thumped from his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Seems that the Dems are a bit miffed that the senator from Connecticut supported the presidential run of his friend John McCain. To cast their votes, these senators will bravely use the secret ballot. Need to preserve dignity, you understand.
What makes this situation possibly delightful is that Lieberman may well indeed retain the chairmanship. This would be a direct rebuke to Harry Reid's thirst to punish the traitor. Even so, word is that Ried will get his pound of flesh one way or the other. Should Lieberman stay as chair of the Homeland Security Committee, the Democrats may opt to strip him from the all-powerful subcommittee chairmanship on the Environment and Public Works Committee. That'll show him.
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