Midlands Voices: Unions level the playing field for workers
By Ken E. Mass
The writer is president/secretary-treasurer of the Nebraska State AFL-CIO.
There is too little in the news about the reasons why unions exist and what they do to increase levels of fairness and justice in the workplace. The stories that appear are generally about conflict, and they usually portray organized labor as the problem.
Indeed, most Nebraskans do not know that labor unions, in the private and public sectors, establish a level of workplace democracy over and above any found in an at-will employment relationship.
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