This morning's KUOW Weekday show spent an hour looking at the exquisitely mis-named "Employee Free Choice Act," or card-check bill, about to be introduced in Congress, as well as the equally Orwellian "Worker Privacy Act" now pending in the Washington Legislature.
The show spends a considerable amount of time on the arguments of both labor and management. The employer community's perspective received excellent treatment from Seattle labor and employment attorney (and AWB Board member) Tim O'Connell of Stoel Rives LLP, whose remarks ranged from an historical perspective on labor law in this country to up-to-date statistics on unionization from the National Labor Relations Board. Tim covered the panoply of concerns and objections that lead the business community to oppose card-check and the gag rule as the most radical retrenchments of federal and state labor law in at least six decades.
The archived show can be streamed here. For folks interested in the issue, it's well worth a listen.
