The Employee Free Choice Act may be stalled, but that’s not stopping the Teamsters. On Monday they posted an “all hands on deck” memo seeking 1,000 new organizers to help them deal with the “deluge” of organizing requests they expect after EFCA passes.
Now that Al Franken will be seated as the 60th Senator in the Democratic caucus next week, it is likely we will see a major push by labor’s supporters to pass some sort of EFCA-derivative legislation in the next several weeks. Senator Harkin has threatened to call for a vote on something (either the current version of EFCA or “the son of EFCA”) right after the 4th of July recess.
