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Missouri 'Breaks' in Favor of Unions

By VINCENT J. MONTALBANO
Posted 8/20/18

In the Upper Missouri River basin, an area known as the “Missouri Breaks” is a landscape of steep cliffs on the side, and a muddy, shallow river bottom that presented one of the many formidable challenges that the Lewis and Clark expedition faced and overcame.

So also, the decades-long success of the so-called “right-to-work” movement, in formerly strong industrial-union states, has metaphorically presented similar challenges to the labor movement; but unfortunately without the same positive results experienced by the great explorers on their much shorter journey from 1804-1806.

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