Tom Harkin: “In all of the organizations that I have seen which are organized under 8(a)(2), where you have employer representatives…”

“In all of the organizations that I have seen which are organized under 8(a)(2), where you have employer representatives and you have management and where they met in that spirit of mutual respect, I can tell you I have not seen one case, nor do I know of one, where there has been that kind of a gridlock and deadlock. I think there is an assumption by the Senator from Missouri that labor is always--or at least sometimes--always going to act in a way that is going to be detrimental to the management. Workers do not want to do that. They want the company to function correctly. What they want is their rights protected. They want their rights protected. No one wants to return to slavery in this country where someone just tells a human being, ``Look, you do as I say, or else, out the door.'' We have advanced beyond that. We do not want to go back to the old days where labor had no rights whatsoever.”