Yesterday, we reported that the Washington State Labor Council had put the spotlight on the Democrats in Olympia, trashing their underwhelming voting records on labor issues (nay on the workers' privacy legislation, watered down unemployment insurance reform).

The  Senate Democrats (Sens. Margarita Prentice and Ed Murray scored the worst of any Seattle Democrats in Olympia and Sen. Majority Leader Lisa Brown got a D grade herself) are evidently sensitive to such talk and released a response hyping the pro-labor bills they passed:

This year, Senate Democrats passed legislation to increase unemployment benefits for workers between jobs, enhance worker retraining benefits, set a goal to cover all Washingtonians with health care, protect workers from human trafficking violations, protect workers in the appeals phase of a workers’ compensation claim, provide binding arbitration to workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, enhance apprentice utilization at our state colleges and universities, and reform the retrospective rating program – all of which passed into law except the last item.