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Tackling the Employee Free Choice Act at the State Level

Recognizing that passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is currently stalled at the national level, unions are acting at the state level to achieve the same effects, which are to inhibit employer interference in employees' ability to form unions: Kris Maher, Unions Push Issues in State Capitals, Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2009. The glaring question here is, if President Obama has pledged to sign it, why is it stalled? Will the Democrats compromise here as well, as they already have on so many progressive causes?

Here is the text of H.R. 1409: The Employee Free Choice Act.

–Suzanne Verderber

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