SENATOR CLINTON HEDGING BETS ON CARD-CHECK?

With the Employee Free Choice Act all but certain to meet death by filibuster this week, and the bill's extreme unpopularity (amongst practically every voter not paid a union officer's salary), it will be interesting to watch politicians' positions as they emerge, change and develop further. Senator Clinton, in remarks attributed by the New York Sun, may be looking for alternative routes for changing American labor policy:

"I'm all for secret ballots. I'm all for elections," she said. "But then you're going to have to have a lot more enforcement and supervision over what happens during an organizing drive than the current administration has been willing to provide."

There have been some who have argued that the current system is not at all broken. The Board's General Counsel has previously set as investigation and enforcement priorities the so-called "first contract" cases over which E.F.C.A. supporters proclaim concern; and, has announced a desire to expedite consideration of injunctions, another purported goal of the legislation.

Is Senator Clinton positioning herself to argue for the expansion of the National Labor Relations Board's investigation and enforcement budgets, instead of the radical overhaul of American labor policy presented by the E.F.C.A.?