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blog.aflcio.org - 1/15/2009
CIO NOW BLOG | Guess What, Heritage: Strong Economies Have Strong Unions
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Seth Michaels , Jan 15, 2009 This week, the hard-right Heritage Foundation—a major funding source for corporate-friendly and anti-union research and spin—released its Index of Economic Freedom , an annual ranking of the economic climate of the world’s nations. Using Heritage’s numbers, it seems ...
Economic Freedom, Universal Health Care, and Labor Unions
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/23/2009
Economic Freedom, Universal Health Care, and Labor Unions
— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — The Heritage Foundation has a new report out touting the fifteenth annual edition of its joint project... with The Wall Street Journal called the “Index of Economic Freedom” . This is the right-wing’s gold standard of international ... (more) Economic Freedom, Universal Health Care, and Labor Unions

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EFCA in International Comparison
Matthew Yglesias — ... , but specifically they feature the kind of labor-friendly legal environment that progressives are trying to bring to the United States: ...

McConnell: Employee Free Choice Will ‘Fundamentally Harm’ And ‘Europeanize America’
Wonk Room — ... ” have “far more worker-friendly labor laws than we do in this nation.” This includes not just Europe, but Australia and Canada. As Seth Michaels noted, “In giving corporations veto power over how workers form unions, ...

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