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.
2/08/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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