Business may be down for some law firm practice groups. But labor law is a gold mine these days. It’s all because of fear generated by legislation that hasn’t even passed Congress: the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would make it much easier for unions to organize and then to get a contract favorable to them.
EFCA has bounced around Congress since 2003, always blocked by Republicans. But President Obama made its passage a campaign priority, appointed as Labor Secretary Rep. Hilda Solis, a staunch EFCA supporter, and has Democrats in control of both houses of Congress. So many people on both sides of the union-management divide think it’s only a matter of time–quite possibly a very short time–until EFCA becomes law, although the country’s economic crisis might impact that.
