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Money was taken out of my paycheck against my will. I didn't want to be in the union.

I had no rights in the matter, and I was furious.

Bernie believes that in order to rebuild the American middle class, we have to rebuild the American trade union movement and expand employee ownership and participation in the industry.

What worker friendly policy proposals does Bernie support?
Bernie has been a longtime fighter for unions in the Congress and Senate. In his very first term in Congress back in 1992, Bernie introduced the Workplace Democracy Act, a comprehensive bill designed to empower unions to more easily organize and negotiate with employers. He did not give up on the bill despite strong Republican opposition as he re-introduced the bill every two years for nearly a decade.

More recently, Bernie voted for the Allowing Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officers bill which required the Federal Labor Relations Authority to enforce the ability of public safety officers to engage in collective bargaining. He also voted against a 2011 amendment which would have terminated collective bargaining rights for employees of the Transportation Security Administration.

Litigants are being represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and the Liberty Justice Center—two institutions financed by some of Americas wealthiest conservative–benefactor families, including the Kochs, the Waltons, and the Coors families.

Litigants are being represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and the Liberty Justice Center—two institutions financed by some of Americas wealthiest conservative–benefactor families, including the Kochs, the Waltons, and the Coors families.

The National Women’s Conference, almost counterintuitively from today’s perspective, had the full blessing of the political and intellectual establishment. Margaret Mead, the famous anthropologist, then seventy-five years old, told the delegates that “this conference may well be the turning point, not only in the history of the women’s movement, but in the history of the world itself.” First Lady Rosalynn Carter was in attendance, along with one Democratic and one Republican predecessor, Lady Bird Johnson and Betty Ford; the trio was formally welcomed by the mayor of Houston. The event’s over-the-top theatricality was epitomized by a six-week-long torch relay that began in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first women’s rights convention had been held in 1848, and concluded in Houston. The final lap was covered on network television. Maya Angelou wrote a declaration for the occasion, which was printed on a scroll that the torchbearers carried. As Spruill describes the scene:

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There was a tremendous response as the three young women runners—white, black, and Latina—delivered the torch and Maya Angelou’s poem to the three First Ladies as an all-female bugle corps dressed in golden Amazon helmets saluted them.

Who could possibly forget that? But we have.

Money was taken out of my paycheck against my will. I didn't want to be in the union.

I had no rights in the matter, and I was furious.

People should be able to choose to pay for union benefits, or not receive them.

a host of new developments underscore with fresh clarity that if anyone views Trump supporters with profound contempt, it’s Trump and his advisers — and that liberals are right to point out that he is actively trying to fleece them.

US Health Secretary Tom Price has apologised over his private plane trips on official government business.
The former Georgia congressman said he will reimburse taxpayers and fly commercial in future.
His apology comes a day after US President Donald Trump said he was "not happy" with Mr Price's trips.
Government officials, except those dealing with national security matters, are required to take commercial flights for work-related travel.
An investigation by Politico found Mr Price had taken at least 24 such flights since early May at a cost to taxpayers of $300,000 (£223,000).
"To make sure everyone knows that this will never happen again, I am taking the following steps," said Mr Price in a statement on Thursday.
He said he would continue to co-operate with a review into the matter by his Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) inspector general.
"I will take no more private charter flights as Secretary of HHS," he added. "No exceptions.
"Today, I will write a personal check to the US Treasury for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes. The taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes."
Two other members of Mr Trump's cabinet are under scrutiny by inspectors general for their use of private planes while on the job:

"Twitter said Thursday it had shut down 201 accounts that were tied to the same Russian operatives who posted thousands of political ads on Facebook, but the effort frustrated lawmakers who said the problem is far broader than the company appeared to know. The company said it also found three accounts from the news site RT -- which Twitter linked to the Kremlin -- that spent $274,100 in ads on its platform in 2016."

"Today, I will write a personal check to the US Treasury for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes. The taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes."