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Article: Proposed labor bill has fatal voting flaw; Employee Free Choice Act would do more harm than good.(NEWS)(Editorial)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- August 27, 2008
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Taxes. Health care. The war. Certainly, those are some of the more obvious contenders to be marquee issues in Minnesota's hard-fought Senate race. But what has surprisingly emerged to dominate the airwaves and the debate is a bill that was passed by the U.S. House but bogged down in the Senate more than a year ago: the Employee Free Choice Act. Its innocuous name belies the furor raging over it in Minnesota and across the nation. Among the bill's key provisions: It would allow unions to be recognized without a secret ballot and would stiffen penalties for employers who retaliate against prounion employees. On one side is organized labor, which sees the bill as critical for ...
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