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WORKPLACE ORGANIZING: Laboring after Congress BY JOHN GALLAGHER, FREE PRESS
Since he retired from Congress in early 2003, former U.S. Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., has continued to fight for the same causes that occupied him as a legislator. One of those causes for the liberal Democrat is the right of workers to join unions.

Bonior today chairs the recently formed American Rights at Work, a pro-union group based in Washington, D.C. The Free Press talked with him recently about his new activity.

QUESTION: What is American Rights at Work?

ANSWER: American Rights at Work is a new nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the American public about the barriers that workers face when they attempt to exercise their rights to organize and engage in collective bargaining.

Unionbusters American Rights at Work
In this section, we will be shining the spotlight on a relatively unknown story—the billion-dollar anti-union consultant industry.

What are Union Busters?   Behind the scenes, these modern-day Pinkertons help companies devise the plans for the unrelenting war against workers who try to exercise their democratic right to choose a union and collectively bargain. These consultants are lawyers or operatives whose tactics include training supervisors to harrass workers on a daily basis; orchestrating meetings that workers are forced to attend to hear the company's anti-union propoganda; and producing videos and leaflets that stoke fear and tension in the workplace.

Justice for Labor Foundation Martin Jay Levitt, author of 'Confessions of a Union Buster,' is the only former Union Buster who now dedicates his life to ORGANIZED LABOR by advising and educating Unions on how to: Successfully EXPOSE EMPLOYER TERRORISM and BUST UNION BUSTERS.

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