The SEIU and others are all excited (again) today because they think they have a "gotcha" on the arbitration provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act because the Chamber supports arbitration in other circumstances. Their argument is moronic and merely the latest in a series of sad attempts to obfuscate EFCA through Congress. So once again, some clarity. We support dispute-related arbitration because it is something agreed to as part of the overall contract. The EFCA-style arbitration is totally different because it actually drafts, by the government, the underlying contract between the parties.

Comparing the two is like school in the summer...no-class. Or if you didn't watch Fat Albert, comparing the two is like worker-choice under EFCA...forced.

// updated on 8 May merely to italicize the point, which was somehow missed by some, as was the Fat Albert quote.