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Right-to-work surge is reviving America’s Rust Belt

By Sean Higgins
Published April 30, 2014 4:00am ET
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Right-to-work surge is reviving America’s Rust Belt
A United Auto Worker pickets outside General Motors assembly plant Sept. 24, 2007 in Janesville, Wis. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) | Scott Olson

Part of the Washington Examiner‘s weeklong commentary series on labor unions. To see the entire series, click here.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels wasted no time. The day after the Republican was sworn in as governor on Jan. 10, 2005, he issued an executive order rescinding collective bargaining rights for state employees.

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