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