Can A “Progressive Victory” Be A Loss For Employees?

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by Admin

Randy Shaw at BeyondChron, San Francisco’s “alternative daily news,” takes stock of the progressive agenda and eyes possible “victories” in 2010.

Oddly, the Employee Free Choice Act is one of them. Why odd? Because progressive values tend to run along the lines of these described by George Lakoff in The Nation: “care and responsibility, fairness and equality, freedom and courage, fulfillment in life, opportunity and community, cooperation and trust, honesty and openness.”

All sound pretty good. So where’s the value of denying working Americans the right to vote on whether they join a union? Where’s the value of substituting government bureaucrats for the time-tested method of contract between consenting parties?

No, EFCA would offend any true progressive’s ideals. Arguing otherwise is at best a stretch designed to assuage one’s guilt over pushing such an atrocious piece of legislation.

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