Another, too infrequently discussed reason we need a regime change in Washington: In what could be a body blow to the United Auto Workers and other unions, the Republican-dominated National Labor Relations Board will decide soon whether to curtail a union's ability to organize workers though so-called neutrality and card-check agreements...in a case brought by a non-union group known as the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, the NLRB voted late Monday along party lines to examine whether employees have the right to challenge a company's recognition of a union as bargaining representative under such agreements. The case won't be decided until sometime in 2005, and the outcome of this November's presidential election could have a major impact. The party that controls the White House gets to appoint three of the five members of the board, and the current 3-to-2 Republican majority would swing back to a more union-friendly Democratic control should U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the presumptive Democratic nominee, win the presidency.
6/10/2004
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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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