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Laelth

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28. FDR's Second Bill of Rights should be adopted, agreed.

Reply to GermanSmoker (Reply #27)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 07:33 AM

Dec 2012

But there is no way Congress could or would adopt it in the current political climate in the United States.

As for forcing people to pay union dues if they decide to take a job at a closed shop (all unionized workers), that's entirely legal here, and it makes good sense. Nobody is "forced" to pay union dues in the United States. If a person agrees to accept employment at a closed shop, that person is agreeing to pay union dues. If that person does not want to pay union dues, that person is free to not accept employment at a closed shop.

-Laelth

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