Labor groups have been blasting Senator Michael Bennet for not supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, the controversial legislation that, if passed, would do away with the secret ballot in union elections. And Bennet has been doing his best to avoid taking a position on EFCA.
According to Bennet, he met with the AFL-CIO and that same day the junior senator from Colorado sounded wish-washy on EFCA. First, he says that the bill as it's currently written is not going to be "voted upon." Then he says that the HELP Committee, of which he is a member, is trying to figure out a way "to advance the cause and get it passed." Bennet clearly would like to please Big Labor without taking a hit among the electorate for supporting a