"On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King gave his last speech to support sanitation workers

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on strike for union recognition in Memphis. The next day King was assassinated."http://tdu.org/node/2770

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1. Martin Luther King on Right-to-Work Laws

"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right to work.' It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. It is supported by Southern segregationists who are trying to keep us from achieving our civil rights and our right of equal job opportunity. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone.Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote."

King speaking on right-to-work laws in 1961.http://tdu.org/node/2770


How many states have Right-to-work laws?

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2. Whenever I hear these words the tears start flowing. It's become an involuntary reaction.

The world was a different place when he lived.

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3. I know if he was here he would be marching with OWS....

The right to work laws that sound so proactive and are so misleading are the tricks ALEC has been using in it's legislation for over 20 years....