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What bizarre times these are in U.S. labor politics. Pragmatic agreements between unions and companies are greeted as evidence of government misdeeds, and a law that provides the weakest protection for workplace rights in the developed world is under attack for being a tool of “Big Labor,” which is itself struggling to survive.

Two events in the past week illustrate these developments: the GOP’s intensified attacks on the NLRB in the wake of the settlement of the Boeing dispute, and a multimillion-dollar media campaign to promote Senator Orrin Hatch’s anti-union Employee Rights Act.

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