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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1185856" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>The last time the Democratic Party was willing to do something for labor was in regards to the Employee Free Choice Act, which would have let labor unions organize a job site simply via card check. But the Obama administration had already shot their wad with Obamacare and couldn't get enough Democratic senators on board, so it died on the floor of the Senate. While Obamacare does some good things, I think the EFCA would have done more over time to enable faster organizing and giving workers the leverage to demand better health benefits; it's a lot harder to deprive a worker of benefits under a collective bargaining agreement than it is otherwise as we've seen with the 30 hour work week exemption. </p><p></p><p>The Obamacare tax on Taft Hartley plans - if not waived before it kicks in over the next few years - will probably cause labor to seriously reconsider Democratic support. And that waiver sure as hell won't be going through unless the balance of power is shifted back to the Democrats in Congress -- which is pretty unlikely, considering the extent that Republicans have gerrymandered congressional districts when they retook dozens of state houses in the 2010 mid-term elections. Can you imagine the circus that would play out on Capitol Hill if Reid or Pelosi tried to introduce a bill to spare "big labor" from one of the tax hikes slated under Obamacare? </p><p></p><p>It would be a lot easier to make the jump if the Republican party hadn't grown so openly hostile to labor from the 1950's onward (alongside Southern Democrats) and there was a viable third party on the national level. Richard Trumka (president of the AFL-CIO) recently admitted that labor's tactics over the last 30 years have failed and that we have to go in a new direction in order to survive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1185856, member: 42270"] The last time the Democratic Party was willing to do something for labor was in regards to the Employee Free Choice Act, which would have let labor unions organize a job site simply via card check. But the Obama administration had already shot their wad with Obamacare and couldn't get enough Democratic senators on board, so it died on the floor of the Senate. While Obamacare does some good things, I think the EFCA would have done more over time to enable faster organizing and giving workers the leverage to demand better health benefits; it's a lot harder to deprive a worker of benefits under a collective bargaining agreement than it is otherwise as we've seen with the 30 hour work week exemption. The Obamacare tax on Taft Hartley plans - if not waived before it kicks in over the next few years - will probably cause labor to seriously reconsider Democratic support. And that waiver sure as hell won't be going through unless the balance of power is shifted back to the Democrats in Congress -- which is pretty unlikely, considering the extent that Republicans have gerrymandered congressional districts when they retook dozens of state houses in the 2010 mid-term elections. Can you imagine the circus that would play out on Capitol Hill if Reid or Pelosi tried to introduce a bill to spare "big labor" from one of the tax hikes slated under Obamacare? It would be a lot easier to make the jump if the Republican party hadn't grown so openly hostile to labor from the 1950's onward (alongside Southern Democrats) and there was a viable third party on the national level. Richard Trumka (president of the AFL-CIO) recently admitted that labor's tactics over the last 30 years have failed and that we have to go in a new direction in order to survive. [/QUOTE]
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