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March 25, 2009


Richard Epstein on the Employee Free Choice Act

The famed law professor has written an important new paper in the Civil Justice Forum series from the Manhattan Institute. He argues that U.S. labor law (which has been essentially unchanged for decades) cannot be blamed for the steady decline in private-sector unionization levels over the same period; and workers would pay a steep cost for the EFCA regime in losing some of their current control over two questions in which they are legitimately and keenly interested, the selection of a union and the terms of a contract with their employer.

More: Associated Washington Times op-ed and podcast with interviewer Jim Copland.

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