JUST SAYIN’-During NPR’s Morning Edition, broadcast on Southern California’s public radio station KCRW, is an underwriter spot for “Labor Lawyers” Fisher & Phillips.
Turns out Fisher & Phillips represents employers and it’s not a benign management firm.
Here’s Fisher & Phillips describing on its website how it helped a manufacturing plant during a labor dispute with the machinists union:
“[O]ur firm provided advice to the company on how to weather the strike including the hiring of permanent replacement for the approximately 100 employees … Our attorneys also advised our client regarding the legal and practical issues involved in removing the union … As a result, today our client’s plant is union-free and more productive than before the strike.”
A national firm, Fisher & Phillips’ LA partner Lonnie Giamela.
The Santa Monica College-based KCRW is considered a progressive voice in the region. Is it consistent with that image to showcase a law firm which lists among its Labor Relations Services “Desertification” and “Union Avoidance”?
(Lou Siegel works in the labor movement and blogs at LaborLou.com where this column was first posted.)
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CityWatch
Vol 11 Issue 91
Pub: Nov 12, 2013
