George Miller

There’s a lot of spin kicking around about the Employee Free Choice Act, also known as the “card-check” legislation. PolitickerME will attempt to break the bill down to determine what it really does.

The bill adds another means for unions to organize, designed to circumvent some of the problems workers frequently encounter in the process.

Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) is the sponsor of the House version, and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) sponsors the Senate version. Both U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud (D-East Millinocket) and U.S. Rep. Tom Allen (D-Portland) are cosponsors.

The bill passed in the House last year, but was filibustered in the Senate.