Perhaps feeling heat from a potential election challenge from Republican rival Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is apparently making it known that he will vote against cloture on card check legislation, setting back labor union efforts to eliminate workers’ secret ballot vote on unionization. Specter was the only Republican to vote for card check legislation the last time it came up in the Senate.
Grover Norquist told the American Spectator’s blog yesterday that he received a call from Specter’s chief of staff saying that the senator would be voting against cloture on card check. However, Specter left open the possibility of voting for card check in the future on the floor of the Senate later that day:
“If efforts are unsuccessful to give Labor sufficient bargaining power through amendments to the NLRA, then I would be willing to reconsider Employees’ Free Choice legislation when the economy returns to normalcy.”
At least you know where he stands.
Hat tip: The Weekly Standard
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