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Defending the UAW, Felix Salmon Abandons Logic

So finance lobbyists can 'organize' and 'collectively bargain' with Washington politicians for NAFTA, all manner of deregulation, legalized usury, bailouts for the banking and bossing class etc. But when workers do it, it's labeled corrupt by this same hypocritical crowd? Please.

Even Sect. 201 of your labor-market-regulating Taft Hartley Act clearly states the position of the U.S. with regards to collective bargaining:

"It is the policy of the United States that sound and stable industrial peace and the advancement of the general welfare, health, and safety of the Nation and of the best interest of employers and employees can most satisfactorily be secured by the settlement of issues between employers and employees through the processes of conference and collective bargaining between employers and the representatives of their employees"

Why don't you captains of industry try to grow your precious profits in ways other than simply extracting wealth from those who actually create it?

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