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Indiana Rejects Big Labor, Becomes Right-to-Work State
Investors Business Daily ^ | 2/2/12 | Mark Mix

Posted on 02/04/2012 6:47:54 AM PST by willowsdale

For the past two weeks, Big Labor bosses around the country have had their eyes on the Indiana capitol — watching in horror as the General Assembly passed a right-to-work bill with commanding majorities.

The passage of Indiana's right-to-work law is an extraordinarily bitter defeat for the union brass. Less than a year ago, despite the fact that Hoosiers had elected substantial pro-right-to-work majorities to both chambers in 2010, union strategists remained confident they could preserve the forced-unionism status quo.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: freedom; indiana; unions; workers
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To: Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; dforest; Dengar01; BillyBoy

It was a done deal when it passed the House, the outcome was never in doubt in heavily Republican Senate.

Dforest is right, Indiana will continue to benefit from migrating Illinois business.


21 posted on 02/06/2012 4:57:54 PM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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