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In a recent post, John Logan paints the Employee Rights Act (ERA) introduced by Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott, as a “disingenuous” bill favoring “the 1%” of America’s workers. Republicans, Logan claims, are out to weaken “already pathetically weak workplace rights.” Instead of creating jobs, the ERA is picking on “Big Labor” while it is “struggling to survive.” 

Logan’s argument is, in fact, the disingenuous one. The scandalous inequalities between unionized workers and their well-heeled union bosses dramatically illustrate the disregard for real workplace rights that Hatch and Scott are working to correct in the first comprehensive attempt to reform our labor laws in over 60 years. 

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