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Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Vincent Vernuccio is Director of Labor Policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan.
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Vincent Vernuccio
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FROM Vincent Vernuccio
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President Trump, organized labor and working Americans The President helped unveil Boeing's new Dreamliner today in South Carolina -- at a plant where workers just rejected unionization by a vote of three-to-one. In half of America's state capitals, Republicans are enacting so-called "right-to-work" laws crippling unions by allowing employees not to pay dues. Fifty years ago, organized labor was a powerful force in politics and the economy -- earning credit for creating the middle class. With the White House incumbent applauding efforts to reduce union clout, what about his promise to "make America great again" for millions of workers?
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