Bill HalterIn a question and answer with Arkansas reporters yesterday, Bill Halter shed some light on his views of labor law reform and the Employee Free Choice Act.

Questioned on card check, he said, quite accurately, that the idea of forming unions by cards alone has been, well, discarded, and that he is favorably inclined to some pro-labor incremental measures now being shopped by, among others, Mark Pryor. The election time would be compressed. Penalties for employer intimidation of workers would stiffened through better enforcement.

He pretty much sounds like Colorado Senate primary challenger Andrew Romanoff, who also declines to take a view on majority sign-up on the basis that it won’t ever come to a vote.  It’s a duck, but it’s rather moot since it is DOA in Congress anyway.

But Halter says that he supports some kind of labor law reform, which is a hell of a lot better than Blanche.  Don’t yet count Halter as the Arkansan savior of organized labor, though.

UPDATE: Here’s video of Halter’s comments.