Opinion: A place government doesn’t need to stick its nose

I’ve spent much of my career advocating on behalf of Alaska’s small and independent business owners at all levels of government. While this sometimes meant championing specific policy proposals to help Alaskan businesses and their employees, I found that, frequently, the best thing government can do is step out of the way. Unfortunately, there is a new proposal in Washington that would do just the opposite; the Faster Labor Contracts Act would subject private workplace negotiations to tight, arbitrary deadlines and could force workers and employers into contracts they never agreed to.

As its title suggests, the Faster Labor Contracts Act is intended to artificially “speed up” contract negotiations between employers and unions. It would force employers to begin bargaining with a new union