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To: BruceS
"I support neither Romney nor Gingrich, but this is garbage. Watch the clip. Neither one said they support the Federal Government forcing employees to join unions in this clip. What they said was that they believe that the Federal government (through the radicalization of the NLRB) is trying to take right to work away from the states. They said that right to work is a state's rights issue. Neither was asked about a Federal law banning forced unionization.

That said, as a Constitutional conservataive, I don't see where in the Constitution that the Congress would be given the right to pass such a law. Labor relations within a state are none of the Federal government's business. In his answer in the clip, Newt was exactly right."

Same here ,unless there was a part of the video missing.

18 posted on 08/26/2011 3:14:18 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Carnival commie side show, started November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: Cheetahcat

According to the article “The fact is The National Right To Work Act that is pending in the U.S. Congress does not add a single word to federal law; it simply repeals two sections-two sections that federally authorizes forced-unionism across America.”

However in the video the question is “would you support a federal right to work law?”. Which is a quite different thing - the obvious interpretation of the phrase “federal right to work law” would be a law, at the federal level, banning closed shops etc. in all states. Which would probably be a positive thing, pragmatically, but may or may not be constitutional.


21 posted on 08/26/2011 3:34:32 PM PDT by skintight buffoonery
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