The U.S. Chamber of Commerce just released a letter to the Senate, detailing the corporate group's hypocrisy in opposing first contract arbitration in the Employee Free Choice Act. The U.S. Chamber was apparently reeling from recent newspaper ads highlighting their two-faced approach to the issue, and wanted to explain itself to the Senate.

The Chamber's R. Bruce Josten writes:

To justify these provisions, or perhaps to support some type of alleged compromise, the unions have deliberately tried to muddy the waters by arguing that the business community's support for dispute arbitration is somehow inconsistent with its opposition to interest arbitration as envisioned by the Employee Free Choice Act. This is a desperate attempt at smoke and mirrors because the two situations have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

That's correct - for the U.S. Chamber, the situations have absolutely nothing to do with each other. That's because the U.S. Chamber only prefers arbitration when they can stack the deck in corporations' favor. Otherwise, forget about it.