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Americans for Fair Treatment exists to support public sector employees who are being bullied or harassed by their union. (Photo: Shironosov/Getty Images)
Public employees across America are growing weary of unions that do not represent their interests, says Elisabeth Kines, the national executive director of Americans for Fair Treatment.
Kines helps public sector employees, such as teachers, to understand their First Amendment rights and to stand up to union pressure. She says conservatives used to be the only ones reaching out for help. Now, she receives lots of calls from politically liberal individuals who have been abused or bullied by their union and are asking for help.
Repair the Crumbling Infrastructure of the American Labor Movement
Biden’s plan would allocate billions to transportation and manufacturing. But will it also do what’s necessary to build back the country’s unions?
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A former public affairs aide for the AFL-CIO once told me he
spent most of his day fielding queries from conservatives. Most liberals outside
the Rust Belt lost interest in organized labor decades ago; only now are they
starting, tentatively, to think again about unions’ role in creating the sort
of society they want. Conservatives, by contrast, never lost interest in “Big
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