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Since 1994, labor unions have reportedly donated more than half a billion dollars to Democratic candidates.(Brief article)

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Since 1994, labor unions have reportedly donated more than half a billion dollars to Democratic candidates. Now that the Democrats have control of Congress, they've decided to repay Big Labor with the disingenuously named Employee Free Choice Act of 2007. The law would revoke the right of workers to a secret-ballot election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board board when voting on whether to form a union. Publicly signed union cards would ...

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