"The choice to organize should be left up to workers and workers alone. It should be their free choice," said Barack Obama (D-IL) in support of the bill last week. "Organized labor helps keep the American middle class intact, and it provides workers with basic guarantees - wages that can raise a family, preventative health care coverage and treatment for the sick, a retirement that is dignified, and working conditions that are safe. It will be working Americans, united and organized, that will help us restore a sense of shared prosperity and security to this nation."
And for some reason, to Republicans, that's a truly scary thought.
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