The Employee Free Choice Act Is Unconstitutional

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Author(s) Richard Epstein
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date December 19, 2008
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122964977342320545.html
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Quotes-start.png "The Supreme Court (unfortunately, in my view) has held that the peculiar labor-law environment justified these abridgements of ordinary speech rights. But it hardly follows that if the government can curtail speech rights, the EFCA can eliminate them. There is simply no legitimate government interest in promoting unionization that justifies a clandestine organizing campaign which denies all speech rights to the unions' adversaries." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic Employee Free Choice Act.