[lbo-talk] good news for unions?

Bill O'Connor billyoc at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 09:51:17 PDT 2008


Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:


> The Washington branch of ISI, the consulting firm headed by Wall
> Street's favorite economist, Ed Hyman, thinks that the Dems are
> increasingly likely to get 60 Senate seats, which would be news for
> pharma stocks (drug price controls more likely), and would virtually
> assure passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (which would eliminate
> the need for secret ballots in union organizing drives) - bad news for
> Wal-Mart and FedEx.
>

I was discussing this with my fellow AFL-CIO apparatchiks last night, EFCA is our sole priority starting Nov. 5th.



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