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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) may be a political also-ran, but he is also a genius at repackaging himself for the liberal media. His latest gambit: hiring former Michigan GOP chair Saul Anuzis to run an Internet campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act, which would enable unions to win workplace certification via signed [...]

Five years after Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) beat him in a Senate primary by only 17,000 votes, and months after he ruled out a rematch, Club for Growth President Pat Toomey opened the door to another run. The stated reason: the stimulus package. But the reason Republicans inside and outside Pennsylvania have been talking up [...]

Unmentioned in President Obama’s speech to Congress last night was the impending battle over “card check,” which promises to be anything but post-partisan. As conservatives debate how to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act — which, if passed, proponents argue would make it easier for workers to form unions — advocates of the law have [...]

Former Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), whose opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act will win him that award at next weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference.
U.S. News and World Report noticed this nearly two weeks ago, but ThinkProgress spotlights it today to prove how effective a spokesman the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate has proven to be [...]

The $700 billion bank bailout was supposed to stabilize banks and get them lending again. However, some of the recipients seem more interested in rallying big business against the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would make it easier for workers to unionize.
Sam Stein reports in The Huffington Post:

The premiere lobby group representing the private equity industry has surprised many observers by staying neutral in the epic battle between business and labor over the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would dramatically alter the rules for forming a union.
Unions support the bill because it would make union organizing easier. Big business opposes [...]

One in five union activists gets illegally fired in the run-up to unionization elections, economist Dean Baker said at an event held at the National Press Club, Tuesday. Baker’s estimate is based on data compiled by the National Labor Relations Board and analyzed by Baker’s colleagues at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) [...]