Amity Shlaes, Columnist

Support Workers, Not Pushy Unions, This Labor Day: Amity Shlaes

August 29, 2011 at 2:44 PM UTC

Amity Shlaes, chairman of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, is the author of "Great Society" and co-editor, with Matthew Denhart, of a new edition of Coolidge's autobiography.

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Sure, we push people into unions. But that's OK. Unions are good for the worker. You gotta love 'em.

That's the Labor Day message Americans have received for three-quarters of a century from both organized labor and the National Labor Relations Board. These days the pushiness is still evident.