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On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
If you read today's hearing title, you would think that it is about protecting union workers. Unfortunately, the real purpose of today's hearing is to continue the majority's unprecedented year-long attack against millions of middle-class American workers and their right to bargain collectively for their better wages and working conditions.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings criticizes the hearing's true intent as an attack on union workers' rights.

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