In a unilateral move, President Bush took away the freedom of thousands of federal employees by banning unions at several Justice Department agencies due to so-called national security (“Unions barred at justice agencies,” News, Jan. 12).
The freedom to engage in collective bargaining to improve the lives of workers is neither unpatriotic nor a threat to national security. In fact, union membership is a legal right. An overwhelming number of the rescue workers and clean-up crews at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are members of unions. President Bush is denying our own citizens the freedom to choose union representation.
Despite this move by the president, American union workers will continue to fight for the fundamental principle of “liberty and justice for all.”
