6/10/2004

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.

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