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The Indiana Senate voted 28-22
Wednesday to pass the so-called 'right-to-work' bill that forces unions
to represent workers who do not pay dues. The bill is widely seen as an
attack on the ability of private sector unions to organize and to carry
out political activity. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels (R) signed the
bill into law shortly after.
Advocates
for labor rights stress that unions negotiate for better working
conditions for everybody, not just union members, and that barring these
payments is a blow to labor organizing. Indiana is the first state in
the manufacturing belt to pass such a bill, though it is the
twenty-third 'right-to-work' state in the country. The bill created such
controversy in Indiana that Democrats in Senate repeatedly walked out over what they described as Republicans' unwillingness to hear debate. READ MORE
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