Unions helped create the 40-hour workweek, end child labor, and strengthen the middle class. When unions have the power to bargain on behalf of employees, we’re all better off. But the Supreme Court’s recent #Janus decision undermines their ability to do exactly that.
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As dark money groups have spent billions on campaigns designed to chip away at workers’ rights, union membership and workers’ bargaining power have both declined. As a result, wages for working families have stagnated, while billionaires like the Koch brothers have gotten richer.
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President Trump has nominated another anti-worker, anti-union nominee to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh has a long history of ruling in the favor of corporations & big business—at the expense of workers. I’m going to keep fighting against attempts to undermine working families.
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Thank you Sen Murray for supporting unions. It's amazing how people have a hard time seeing the correlation of the demise of unions and the flat wages.
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Don't you really mean the role the Union's play by financing your re-election campaign?
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Nothing like having your campaign funded and then ganked our from under you eh Patty, nobody rides for free under Trump!
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Unions are all in the pockets of Democrats. A law should be passed for forbidding unions from endorsing candidates and supporting them with union dues or holding campaign events.
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Unions support Dems because Dems support workers. But get corporate money out of politics and I will support your efforts to get union money out of politics.
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