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For Unions, Coercion Over Persuasion
Real Clear Politics ^ | June 20, 2007 | George Will

Posted on 06/19/2007 9:26:37 PM PDT by gpapa

Democracy is rule by persuasion, but the unpersuasive often try to coerce the unpersuaded. Recent days have provided two illustrations of this tendency, both of them pertaining to labor unions, whose decades of declining membership testify to their waning power to persuade workers that unions add more value to workers' lives than they subtract.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; industries; labor; unions; unionthugs

1 posted on 06/19/2007 9:26:39 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: gpapa

labor unions, whose decades of declining membership

the unions are drooling over the thought of merging with la Raza


2 posted on 06/19/2007 9:35:10 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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