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    :: Thursday, June 02, 2005 ::

    Labor Leaders Link Organizing Failures To Lack of 'Employee Free Choice' Law - Third in a series of 10 articles by Harry Kelber
    The key question is: why don't those 50 million workers join a union, since they say they'd like to? For Sweeney and Stern, the answer is simple: workers are scared they'll be harassed, abused and fired from their jobs if the boss or his supervisors find out they're joining a union.
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