Pgh Lesbian Correspondents

Esteemed law professor from the University of Pennsylvania Tobias Barrington Wolff was recently a guest on WHYY

(NPR.) Clarke Cooper of the Log Cabin Republicans was the other guest.  Tobias had this to say:

When we discussed ENDA, Clarke sought to link the issue of workplace discrimination protections to the anti-union laws that Republicans are pushing around the country.  The attempt was subtle — he did not reference the anti-union laws directly, but rather described ENDA as embodying the principle of “freedom to work” and “right to work”.  Those terms — particularly “right to work” — are the buzz words that Republicans have been using to push laws that attack public-employee unions or that make it more difficult for workplaces to become union shops.  I disassociated myself from the language, explained that these two issues are not linked, and emphasized the long-standing support that unions have provided to LGBT workplace protections — the appropriate response, I think.

This is an important tactic to be aware of, and to shut down quickly, as our efforts to enact workplace protections continue.

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This is an important warning, especially in Pennsylvania where we see a fairly blatant attempt to “break” the teachers’ unions in the guise of unavoidable budget cuts to education. I expect we’ll see more attention to public unions – whether that happens before November 2012 is up in the air.  But as we push in-state for HB 300 and the workplace protections it contains, we need to be careful that we aren’t compromising labor which is so essential to all of our welfare.