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impossible to know whether American workers would opt for union representation in
substantial numbers as long as the playing field is tilted against organized labor.
1 National Right to Work Foundation website, http://www.nrtw.or
2. Helen Dewar, "Labor Plight in '78; Ambitious Program Is Proving Elusive,"Washington
Post, September 4, 1978.
2 Philip Shabecoff, "Business Interests Unite To Fight Over Labor Laws," New York Times,
June 24, 1977.
3 Peter T. Kilborn, "Ban on Replacing Strikers Faces Veto Threat," New York Times, March
7, 1991.
4 Steven Greenhouse, "Sharp Decline in Union Members in '06," New York Times, January
26, 2007.
5 Jelle Visser, "Union Membership Statistics in 24 Countries," Monthly Labor Review,
January 2006.
6 Human Rights Watch, "Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United
States Under International Human Rights Standards," August 2000, 17-32.
7 Bryan O'Keefe and Whitney Blake, "Rebound of Labor?" New York Sun, February 9,
2007.
8 U.S. Census Bureau, "Women's History Month," news release, March 2006.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 American Medical Association, Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the U.S.
(American Medical Association Press, 2006).
12 Ibid.
13 American Bar Association, "First Year and Total J.D. Enrollment by Gender, 1947-
2005," http://www.abanet.org/legaled/statistics/charts/stats%20-%206.pdf.
14 Harvard Business School, "Statistics: MBA Program,"
http://www.hbs.edu/about/mba.html.
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