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T. Gorton: “So those of us who feel that cooperation, rather than confrontation, is the future for America and labor-management…”

On the recordMay 8, 1996
So those of us who feel that cooperation, rather than confrontation, is the future for America and labor-management relationships, that this is the way we will build more jobs and greater competitiveness, that the only way we can authorize what in fact has been going on until it was determined to be a violation of an act from the 1930's, that the only way that we could bring ourselves into the 1990's or into the 21st century under this set of circumstances is to marry this proposal, which otherwise would be filibustered and vetoed.
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T. Gorton
Republican · Washington
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing labor-management relationships and the need for cooperation in the context of legislative proposals.

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