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    "byline": "By \n\t\t\tPost Editorial Board",
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    "excerpt": "Florida is proactively working to \u201chold government employee unions accountable,\u201d notes\u00a0Aaron Withe at The Hill, by forcing them to demonstrate \u201csupport from an absolute majority of\u00a0the people it claims to speak for.\u201d A 2023 law demands \u201crecertification elections\u201d when unions \u201cfail to\u00a0maintain\u00a0the support of 60 percent of their dues-paying membership.\u201d Saying \u201cthey didn\u2019t bother to vote against us\u201d cannot be a \u201csufficient basis\u201d to hold exclusive bargaining power.\u201d Yet Oregon is \u201cdoing the exact opposite,\u201d permitting government unions to sue groups \u201cthat contact public employees about their rights to opt out of unions.\u201d Advocates claim this is meant to curb groups from fraudulently \u201cimpersonating a union representative,\u201d yet they\u2019ve never cited \u201ca single documented case of a worker being genuinely defrauded.\u201d",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 4912,
    "publishedTime": null,
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    "title": "Big Tech censors are back, ensuring that workers want unions, and other commentary"
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