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    :: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 ::

    Unions, Radical Right clash over card check organizing By Mark Gruenberg, Workday Minnesota
    WASHINGTON — While labor and its congressional allies energetically push legislation for card-check recognition of unions to represent workers, a group of Radical Right congressional Republicans is pushing for a card-check ban.

    In addition, the George W. Bush-appointed GOP majority on the National Labor Relations Board is threatening to reverse past NLRB support for card-check as an option to the contested election process.

    Debate over card-check symbolizes the sharp divisions in Washington over the role and future of labor.
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