Tip of the Day: Stay 'check'-ed in on EFCA developments

The word around the DC Beltway is that the Senate is working on a new, compromise version of the controversial Employee Free Choice Act (or "card check," depending which team you're on) – one that would let employees vote up or down by mail on unionizing, rather than a public square petition.

Regardless of the tweaks, the bill likely will rub either union or employer groups the wrong way, but lawmakers are trying to find middle ground on the legislation, as President Obama has indicated he will sign EFCA once it makes its way through Congress.

Besides the mail-in ballot option, the new measure on the table involves the binding arbitration provision of the bill. In the original version, a strike or other labor dispute may drag on for 120 days before being subject to binding arbitration. The new version would let strikers pound the pavement for 180 days.

Stay tuned in to EBN and the Daily Diversion for EFCA updates as the debate – inside and outside the Capitol – continues. See our June cover story and two-part podcast with two experts on either side of the EFCA debate.