Card Check Bill Moves Forward As Lobbying Battle Heats Up

Business Week reports:

And the battle over card check is fully joined.

Things are heating up for the combatants on both sides of the vehement debate over the Employee Free Choice Act,the labor-backed bill also known as “card check”, designed to make it easier for employees to vote in a union at their workplace. Following several weeks of speculation over just how deep support for the bill is in Congress, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Rep. George Miller (D-CA), announced that they will introduce EFCA in both the Senate and the House on Tuesday, March 10.

The move took some Democrats by surprise. Many moderate, business friendly members of the majority have hoped to avoid a vote; they don’t want to antagonize labor, which helped get them elected, but they worry the measure could raise business costs and harm competitiveness as well.