TNT's Must-Read Editorial Supporting Workers' Compensation Reform

In this forceful and direct editorial, The News Tribune stands behind sensible reforms in our state's workers' comp system. Please read the whole thing.

A sample:

The state workers’ compensation system is simply unsustainable as is. All signs point to the need for reform – all signs, that is, except the signal coming from labor.

Another:

...the unions ... have people in powerful places in the Legislature. Rep. Steve Conway, a Tacoma Democrat who serves as secretary-treasurer for Local 81 of the United Food & Commercial Worker’s Union, is chairman of the House Commerce and Labor Committee that would handle workers’ compensation legislation.

Conway is refusing to hear any workers’ comp bills this year – not even the measure sponsored by his own speaker pro tem, Jeff Morris of Mt. Vernon. Conway says businesses will have to find a compromise that’s acceptable to labor before he’ll let it through.

As the editorial points out, the employer-supported legislation sponsored by Morris is mainstream.

Conway should let the bill be heard.