What are they going to do, vote Republican?

If they are upset that EFCA and other Union hand-outs haven’t been granted, they’re not gonna vote for Huckabee. The individual members of the union that would vote for a republican, most likely didn’t vote for Obama to begin with.

When election time rolls around, groups like the unions and the LBGT community will be very upset with Obama. But that doesn’t mean they’ll vote for a conservative who promises the exact opposite of what they are trying to achieve.

Besides, I’m sure The One will toss them a bone from time to time.

considering they went into great debt last election cycle and their union dues revenue has to be slowed considerably. I read a couple weeks ago that union membership in CA has increased 17%, how’d that happen with the big loss in jobs?

can join hands with the illegal immigrant lobby and the homosexual lobby who are also upset with the president.The reason that Obama has not pushed promised legislation for all these left wing groups is not because he has moved to the right or come to his senses. It is because their pet issues are unpopular and Obama is afraid to spend his dwindling political capital. As bad as Obama is, imagine what it would be like if he had the courage of his convictions.

On a year-to-year basis, unons generally spend as much as they take in. On an annual basis, all unions take in more than $10 billion a year from workers, the vast majority of whom never voted to unionize but are required to pay the union as a condition of employment (they either pay or they are fired).

In 2008, however, the SEIU allegedly took out a line of credit (from Bank of America) to help elect Obama and, a few months ago, Machinists’ union president Tom Buffenbarger complained that the AFL-CIO had been using ‘creative accounting’ to mask its financial problems. Note: The AFL-CIO is a federation of about 56 unions, so Buffenbarger’s comments were related to the federation, not the individual unions.

things that will cost him politically until after a second election. Stupid tools in the union have NO CLUE how it works. NO ONE outside the unions want Card Check and illegals will have to PRAY The Won gets elected again because it wasn’t until Bush was elected the second time that he tried to THROW US UNDER THE BUS! obtw WE WON!

Elections are year round now and the appearance’s that are needed to get re-elected are a constant so he had his moment with the “stimulus” and crap & tax (through the House) and “something” with Obamacare written all over it BUT that will be ALL because 2010 elections are right around the corner and the American Electorate is HOT to make BIG CHANGES!

Folks:

As a group, for more than four years, we have been fighting (on our own time and on our own dime) to awaken America to the hallucinogenically-named Employee Free Choice Act.

Assuming (and it’s still a big assumption) that unions and the Dems are going to lose ground in 2010, they have to try to get all they can done now.

EFCA is a multi-year assault on the facts surrounding how people become unionized and what really occurs in labor relations. It is, in sum, a union bailout and, more importantly, a huge injection of the federal government into the private-sector, employee-employer relationship.

‘JadedbyPolitics’ is right in saying no one outside of unions want card check. (In fact, even many union rank and filers–especially in the trade unions–do not want card check because they know it will add to their already bloated unemployment rosters.) However, please don’t think that EFCA can’t or won’t happen. It passed the House in 2007, but that was only a dry run–everyone knew that.

With the exception of a few moderate Dems, the die has been cast. They, the absence of Robert Byrd, and the GOP are the only things stopping EFCA from being passed right now. And, unfortunately, unlike health care, EFCA and labor issues are issues that most people are unaware of.

[For example, most people didn't even realize that there was a bill introduced in the House last year to end Right-to-Work states. If people in Right-to-Work states knew about though, it could have changed the outcome in November.]

More importantly on EFCA, the business community has already done as much lobbying as it can and there is very, very little grassroots efforts to stop EFCA and the union agenda–primarily because it is an issue most people don’t know about.