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KCRW Underwriter Champions Anti Union Actions

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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.)

-cw

 

CityWatch

Vol 11 Issue 91

Pub: Nov 12, 2013

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