[Thomas] Farr is one of those guys carefully nurtured in the luxurious hothouses built by the wingnut welfare industrial complex. According to research done by the Alliance for Justice, Farr has a history of fighting against discrimination suits brought by minority and female employees against their employers, and he is staunchly anti-union. As the AFJ report says:
Farr also has fought vigorously against workers’ efforts to unionize. He was a staff attorney at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which has deep ties to the Koch brothers and was described by The Center for Media and Democracy as “a national leader in the effort to destroy public and private sector unions.”2 Later, in private practice, he filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit challenging California’s State Employer-Employee Relations Act, which provided for collective bargaining for state employees. He did this even though he was a North Carolina resident and was not representing any party to the litigation. He also defended companies trying to deny recognition of unions and committing unfair labor practices.