Who will be the anti-union field generals?
While enacting The Employee Free Choice Act would be a boost to organized labor it is far from a panacea. It merely levels the playing field a bit. The National Labor Relations Act, (which The Employee Free Choice Act seeks to amend), was enacted in 1935, during Franklin Roosevelt’s administration. It was a wonderful achievement for its time, one of many from that administration. Franklin Roosevelt was a transformational President. The times demanded one and he delivered. In the process he saved the country from ruin and we emerged stronger. Today calls for another transformational President. Barack Obama seems to have answered that call. He, like Roosevelt, enters the Oval Office with the economy in dire straits. He has laid out an agenda that seeks to not only solve the current crisis but also have America emerge stronger than ever and ready for the 21st century. The Employee Free Choice Act is a small part of that program. It is designed as part of an effort to keep the American wor
