Compromises, compromises, everywhere. Even in the media coverage. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is in trouble. US Senator Tom Harkin, who sponsored a bill to make it easier for workers to join unions, said May 4th that the main provision may have to be dropped. Apparently, Harkin believes there isn't enough support for the provision, which is known as card-check, to allow the law to pass. Card check would allow workers, if they wanted to, to bypass a formal election and form a union when a majority of them sign cards requesting one. ?Compromises are going to be made,? Harkin said on the 4th, as reported by the New York Times. Too many lawmakers such as Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat, say they wouldn't support the law. But that?s no reason for the Times to compromise. Describing the fight as one between an opposition led by Walmart Stores and a defense put up by Labor, the Times reports that those groups ?spent about $100 million last year to elect Democrats and have made passing the card-check measure their top goal in Washington this year.? How much have Walmart et al spent to defeat the bill? The Times doesn?t say. According to a recent report by Open Secrets, in the 2007-2008 election cycle, business PAC's spent over $365 million to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act and were backed by the US Chamber of Commerce, which spent $144.4 million or more that $400,000 for every day Congress was in session. The entire labor sector spent less than $84 million on lobbying efforts in those two years. Less