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		<title>California Senator Dianne Feinstein Comes Out Against Employee Free Choice Act &#8211; Card Check</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was little publicized but Democrat California United States Senator Dianne Feinstein announced on Friday that she opposed the Employee Free Choice Act &#8211; as it is currently written. Senator Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s office put out a low-ball statement Friday making clear she won&#8217;t be supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, the labor movement&#8217;s top congressional [...]]]></description>
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<div style="text-align: left;">This was little publicized but <a href="http://calbuzzer.blogspot.com/2009/03/feinstein-deals-major-blow-to-landmark.html">Democrat California United States Senator Dianne Feinstein announced on Friday that she opposed the Employee Free Choice Act</a> &#8211; as it is currently written.</p>
<blockquote><p>Senator Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s office put out a low-ball statement Friday making clear she won&#8217;t be supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, the labor movement&#8217;s top congressional priority, at least in its present form.</p>
<p>As a policy matter, the measure would make it easier for employees to organize unions; as a political one, it would give President Obama, who campaigned in support of the legislation, and majority Democrats in Congress, a visible achievement on behalf of workers at a time of seething public anger at CEOs and corporations.</p>
<p>A co-sponsor of the legislation in the last Congress, Feinstein in recent days has been the target of an organized netroots <a href="http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/WhichSideSenator">campaign</a> to pressure her into coming out in favor of the bill. The online effort came during a three-day Capitol Hill lobbying effort by the Teamsters, which sent a delegation to her office Thursday.</p>
<p>While Feinstein does not face re-election until 2012 as a senator, her flip-flop on labor&#8217;s most crucial legislation would be problematic in a contested Democratic primary for governor &#8212; another sign that she is unlikely to enter the<a href="http://calbuzzer.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-dianne-feinstein-wont-run-for_16.html"> race for governor next year</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Card Check appears to be dead this session of Congress. </p>
<p>But, Feinstein has had conversions before. Remember Leon Panetta as CIA Director?</p>
<p>The LEFT might not immediatley be pleased with DiFi but Flap&#8217;s bet is that Card Check will be re-written and she will then climb on board.</div>
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		<title>Poll Watch: ONLY 9 Per Cent of Non-Union Workers Want to Join a Union</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So says the latest Rasmussen poll: Union members tend to believe that most workers want to join a labor union. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 47% of union members hold that view while only 18% disagree. But those who donâ€™t belong to a union hold a different perspective. By a 56% [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/jobs_employment/just_9_of_non_union_workers_want_to_join_union">So says the latest Rasmussen poll:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Union members tend to believe that most workers want to join a labor union. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 47% of union members hold that view while only 18% disagree.</p>
<p>But those who donâ€™t belong to a union hold a different perspective. By a 56% to 14% margin, they believe that most workers do not want to belong to a union.</p>
<p>As for personal preference, only nine percent (9%) of non-union workers would like to join a union. Eighty-one percent (81%) would not.</p></blockquote>
<p>Is there any wonder why the American Union Movement is pushing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_check">&#8220;Card Check&#8221;</a> or the Employee Free Choice Act through the Congress?<br />
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