Al Franken is 60th vote for union card check legislation

Al Franken could be the missing piece of the puzzle for passage of the labor movement’s No. 1 legislative priority this Congress, a senior union official said Wednesday.

Once seated, the Democratic Minnesota Senate candidate would be the 60th vote for cloture in the Senate on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), said Bill Samuel, director of government affairs for the AFL-CIO.

That is likely to be the case. We are not giving up on other senators,” Samuel said. “In the very worst case, we are going to have to have Al Franken.”

Franken has not been seated as of yet because he is still caught in a legal battle with his Republican opponent, incumbent Norm Coleman. Franken won an official recount for the Senate seat last year, but Coleman is challenging that decision in court. Read the full The Hill story here.

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