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USA TodayEdwards calls for changes to labor laws
By Joe Winn, Indianola Record-Herald
INDIANOLA, Iowa — Federal legislation mandating reforms in labor laws is needed to guarantee fairness in the workplace, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told Iowa voters Saturday in Indianola.
"We need to change the labor laws in this country, it's become clear the labor laws have become stranded in the favor of employers, and all we want is fairness for employees, not an advantage for workers over their employers." Edwards said to roughly 200 people filling the back deck at the home of Ray and Joanne Walton.
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards speaks to local residents during a noontime gathering, Friday, at the Italian Villages restaurant in Adel, Iowa.
Edwards, who asserted himself as a strong union supporter, said repealing the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, and strengthening negotiation rights for employees on strike will benefit American workers. He also noted that implementing "card check neutrality" would ease the process of employees joining a union by only requiring them to sign a certified union card.
These steps would ensure workers' ability to collectively bargain for a fair deal and stop the bleeding of American jobs overseas, said the former U.S. senator from North Carolina.
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