NO "CARD CHECK" BUT ALMOST AS GOOD

(h/t Kevin Drum)

Mark Kleiman writes that EFCA will still be a very strong bill for labor:

The legislation no longer has “card check” (automatic unionization once 50% of the workers have signed a pro-union petition) but it has two other provisions that, between them, do almost the same thing: snap elections and real enforcement of NLRB rules against union-busting.

And it has the provision that’s more important than any of that: binding arbitration on a first contract if the two sides can’t agree. Right now, companies can just refuse to make a deal, wait six months, and then run a de-certification election (using the same dirty tricks they use in the initial elections) with the argument that “This useless union you guys voted for can’t even get you a union contract.”