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"For too long," wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, "some in this country have been deprived of full participation in the political process."
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Thursday, January 1, 2009 | Posted by Jim Hightower
At least since the days of Ronald Reagan, corporate interests have aggressively spread the myth that the American people hate unions. Not so. In fact, 68% of the public today say that unions are necessary to protect working families, and nearly 60 million unorganized American workers say they would form a union tomorrow if they could.
There's the rub. Presidents, lawmakers, regulators, and judges have succumbed to corporate pressure over the years to rewrite American labor law so that it now effectively prevents the formation of unions in the workplace. Corporate executives are routinely able to harass, intimidate, stall, coerce, and fire employees who try to organize.
To stop these tactics and to give Americans a fair chance to join together and bargain with corporate bosses, the AFL-CIO has launched the Employee Free Choice Campaign. For information and action items, go to www.aflcio.org/joinaunion.
