RIP, EFCA? The statement from Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.: “While I may not have been clear about my position in the past, I am stating today that I cannot support Employee Free Choice Act in its current form and I can’t support efforts to bring it to Senate consideration in its current form.”
Or, not dead yet? “Later she elaborated, leaving the door open for her to eventually get on board a revised version of the union-backed legislation,” Huffington Post’s Sam Stein writes. “At the same time, however, it is difficult to imagine what major alternatives ‘both business and labor’ could or will agree on -- the standard that Lincoln has now set for her support.”