2/08/2004

Zach points out some good news from the Detroit Free Press: All of the Democratic presidential aspirants -- from front-runner Sen. John Kerry on down -- are backing a key labor-organizing proposal that would make it easier for unions to add new members. In interviews with the Free Press, each candidate supported so-called card checks for union organizing, a process in which a union wins the right to represent workers after a majority of them in a workplace sign a union card. Human Rights Watch documented (using Yale as a case study) the extent of employer abuses under the NLRB system in the US; the AFL-CIO illustrates the same point with a comic book.

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