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T. Gorton: “The first is that it is a terrible idea to allow labor-management cooperation outside of a formal union-management…”

On the recordJuly 9, 1996
The first is that it is a terrible idea to allow labor-management cooperation outside of a formal union-management negotiating session; that we are still, in America, in the position we were in the 1930's in which most people who work and most people who are employers or supervisors regard themselves in polar opposite camps with antagonistic kinds of interests. The second argument made by the Senator from Massachusetts seems, paradoxically, quite different and that argument is that there are so many of these teams and so much cooperation going on at the present time without any harassment being aimed at it, that we do not need this legislation. Mr. President, I think that both arguments are in error, as largely inconsistent as they may be.
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T. Gorton
Republican · Washington

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Discussing objections to the TEAM Act during Senate floor debate.

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