GOP's Demands a First in Labor Relations

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I had classes at Michigan State University with Dr. Richard Block, who is quoted in this story. He used to be the Dean of the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University when I was a student there a few years ago.

Is a UAW contract worth the paper it's written on anymore? Just a year after the UAW agreed to historic contracts with the Detroit automakers, its leaders have to reopen the contract in the most extraordinary, even humiliating, conditions.

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