States rebuff federal threat over union laws

[The Northerner]

Four states are vowing to fight the federal government in a bid to preserve state measures that guarantee workers the right to secret ballots in union elections.

Attorneys general from Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah signed a letter on Thursday pledging to defend changes to their state constitutions approved by voters on Nov. 2.

"These state laws protect long-existing federal rights and we will vigorously defend any legal attack upon them," the attorneys general said in a letter to the National Labor Relations Board.

Earlier this month, the labor board threatened to sue the states, saying the constitutional amendments conflict with federal law.

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[William769]

1. Maybe someone should remind them who won the Civil war.

Also remind them why our first laws (articles of Confederation) before our Constitution didn't work.