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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: lorne who wrote (121218)2/7/2012 10:52:47 AM
From: Peter Dierks2 Recommendations   of 224749
 
Freeing Workers from Union Bosses
The Employee Rights Act.
Feb 6, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 20 •
By FRED BARNES

For the first time in decades, union power is under serious threat. Indiana is on the verge of becoming the 23rd state to enact a right-to-work law, liberating workers from being forced to join a union. New Hampshire may also adopt some form of right-to-work. Murmurs about a national right-to-work law are growing. Public sector unions continue to face efforts to curb their power and trim their lavish contracts.

And now there’s a shrewd new challenge to organized labor: the Employee Rights Act. It would take labor law in a new direction. Unlike right-to-work statutes, which help businesses escape unionization, the ERA would protect union workers from high-handedness and abuses of power by their union leaders.

The measure was formulated by Richard Berman, a Washington lobbyist and longtime foe of excessive ...

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