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Card Check: Unions’ Salvation?

How would the Employee Free Choice Act affect the size and influence of unions? David Madland and Shikha Dalmia finish their debate.

Supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act say the bill’s passage would go a long way toward reversing the decline in union membership. The bill’s opponents say the real reason for the decline of unions is that workers simply don’t want to join them.
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David Madland

Senior Fellow; Senior Adviser, American Worker Project