Andrea Joy Campbell: “I believe in everyone's right to bargain collectively and their right to choose not to be represented by a union as…”

“I believe in everyone's right to bargain collectively and their right to choose not to be represented by a union as well. And I would conclude with a word of compliment to my colleague from California who has graduated from a superb law school and whose excellence in legal training is demonstrated by his debating me tonight. My colleague from Massachusetts regrettably did not attend as well the law school. He attended the same law school I did, indeed 2 years behind me. But enough on that. Let me close with a quotation with which I began. The Supreme Court Justice O'Connor, I believe, stated it correctly when she said in computing back pay the employees must be deemed unavailable for work and the accrual of back pay therefore told during any period when they were not lawfully entitled to be present and employed in the United States, end quote. It seems to me so simple, so obvious, that to rule otherwise is to send a very confused message and to undermine the Immigration and Naturalization Act.”