Ralph Nader�To Truly Honor American Workers, Taft-Hartley Has To Go:
"As Americans celebrate Labor Day and honor the nation's working people, we should all be ashamed that American labor law and American labor law enforcement makes a mockery of workers' basic rights to organize, join unions and exercise collective bargaining rights.

Workers in industry and commerce face enormous obstacles to form a union and exercise fundamental rights once unionized. One in ten union supporters campaigning to form a union is fired illegally, and employers are effectively free to fire ('permanently replace') workers on strike.

Much of the flawed framework of American labor law is traceable to the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. Fifty-six years after its passage, it is time for Congress to repeal this denial of workers' civil rights."