Well, word around the campfire is that a few "progressive" businesses like Costco and Starbucks are working on a compromise on the EFCA in which 70% of the workers would have to sign registration cards to form a union, instead of 50% plus 1. I put "progressive" in quotes because every business that’s friendly towards liberal causes tends to turn into the equivalent of a Wall Street banker when it comes to unionization. And this compromise is no exception. Getting 70% of workers to agree to anything is about damn near impossible, and the corporations know this.
Anyway, diaries are below the fold. As always, the LDR picks up diaries if they use the word "union" in their tab section, have less than 100 comments, are pro-union, and factual.
Diaries covering EFCA:
Union Review, Pinko Elephant, and Jaime Sanderson all state their pieces on the "compromise" in No Concessions for the Employee Free Choice Act, A 'third way" on Employee Free Choice Act? (EFCA straw poll), and Costco, others look for EFCA compromise.
Eternal Hope writes about Opposition To The Employee Free Choice Act.
Acebass writes about why We Need the EFCA!
PaulVA writes about the WSJ’s story about the EFCA in WSJ: EFCA Does Not Take Away "Secret Ballot"
Other Union Issues
Union Blogger LisaTomasian writes about the need for reforming the SEIU in My letter to SEIU.
TomP continues his coverage of the UNITE HERE divorce in A New Union is Born: Workers United (w/ Danny Glover video)
Enjoy the diaries and treat the comments as an open thread.