Feinstein Denies Report That She's Fully Opposed To EFCA

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Huffington Post

Sam Stein

Senator Diane Feinstein's office is denying reports that the California Democrat is firmly and completely opposed to the union-backed Employee Free Choice Act.

On Wednesday, the station KHTS-AM reported that, during a meeting with the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce, Feinstein told attendees that she would not support EFCA -- which would allow for more avenues to unionization -- regardless of how the measure was watered down in negotiations.

"She will not vote for the bill," John Shaffery, the vice president for the SCV Chamber Board of Directors, was quoted as saying. "And she will not support any modification allowing the process to bypass secret ballots, and she believes that now is not the right time for this type of legislation given the downturn in the economy."



The business community trumpeted the news, with the Workforce Fairness Institute blasting the story out to a list of reporters.



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/03/feinsteins-office-denies_n_210988.html

[boomerbust]

1. Now

IS the time for EFCA. Obama seems awful quiet on this issue also.

[Vincardog]

2. Now is the time to overturn all the Reich wing advances of the last 35 years

[KamaAina]

3. The "Workforce Fairness Institute"?

I forget. Is that a division of the Ministry of Plenty, or the Ministry of Love? :eyes:

[Algorem]

9. aw,you know they just want fairness in the workplace.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. I'm not clear why secret ballots for unionization are bad, while secret ballots for

political election is good? Can someone explain why we wouldn't want secret ballots for unionization?

Shouldn't the fight be more to ensure the election is held by a fair and independent 3rd party, like arbitration?

[Omaha Steve]

6. Secret ballot is not replaced with EFCA

Currently an employer has a choice to accept card check, or demand an election. EFCA (Employee Free Choice Act) simply lets the employee have that choice between the two methods.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. As a non-union worker in an industry with rumblings of potential unionization..

I don't like either option. I'd prefer a neutral 3rd party, agreed upon by the workers, or the unionization movment's leadership, and the employer, to hold a secret ballot election.

I think Card Check is a crock, and so is an election held by the employer.

[Fovea]

10. Imagine a secret ballot election for gov of your state.

Where the GOP got to make folks wait in line for weeks, and could get into the booth with them to advise...

You might want to just sign a card and drop it in the mail, eh?

[AtheistCrusader]

14. No, I wouldn't want to sign it.

Retribution happens.

[NoodleyAppendage]

5. Would someone PLEASE investigate and indict this sorry sack of sh*t Dem?

I suspect her votes, in connection with her war profiteer husband's companies, would be a fertile ground for dirt.

J

[musette_sf]

7. +1

i don't want to hold my nose again and vote for her, either for Senator or (yikes) Governor.

i need to see if there are any other significant Dems talking about the gubernatorial race. the only name i've heard come up so far is hers. and we all know how successful we've been for some years now at choosing a good Dem for a gubernatorial candidate.

[scribble]

8. Feinstein should be in jail

I wish I didn't hold this opinion, but I think Diane Feinstein should be in jail.

She supports the outsourcing of skilled jobs to China and then makes money from that same outsourcing. She supports unrealistically high H1 visa quotas and then profits from people who profit from those high quotas. She profits from her support of the Iraq war. Along the way, she makes herself almost completely unavailable to her constituents.

Feinstein is more than just anti-union or anti-labor. She is anti-employee. She is as bad as any Republican Senator you want to name -- and she takes carefully laundered money from foreign businesses who profit from her stands, against the very same people who mistakenly vote her into office. It is a laugh that we tried Ted Stevens for taking a few payoffs, when really, really big fish like Feinstein are still free.

sc

[AzDar]

11. Diane Feinstein is a disgrace.

:puke:

[DCKit]

12. If the DINO was, in any way, pro-worker...

the Chamber of Commerce would have been meeting with the Republican they were going to sponsor against her in the next election cycle and not the evil Democrat threatening to shave a few percentage points off their profit margin.