Joe Lieberman: “This is a case of the TEAM Act where, it seems to me, both sides, as it were, labor and management, had some merit to…”

“This is a case of the TEAM Act where, it seems to me, both sides, as it were, labor and management, had some merit to their arguments. There should have been a way to put this together and bring about some change in the law that recognizes, respects, and facilitates the extraordinary changes--in some ways the revolution--that have gone on in labor-management circles in this country that the team proposals and programs are part of, and thousands of employers throughout America, and yet to have done that in a way that does not threaten the organized labor movement and does not inadvertently, one hopes, open the door to some of the practices of the past, such as sham unions or employer dominated unions. This was a case where reasonable people should have been able to sit down and reach a reasonable conclusion that would have brought about change.”