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AFL-CIO to make major unionization push in Texas

By Sean Higgins

Published August 18, 2013 4:00am ET

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AFL-CIO to make major unionization push in Texas — Texas was the very first state in the union to pass a “right to work” law making it illegal for union contracts to mandate that all of a company’s workers join a union or at least pay dues to one. It did this in 1943, four years before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, affirming states […]

Texas was the very first state in the union to pass a “right to work” law making it illegal for union contracts to mandate that all of a company’s workers join a union or at least pay dues to one.

It did this in 1943, four years before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act, affirming states could pass such laws. Texas remains synonymous with Big Business conservatism today.

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