Linda R. Monk, J.D.: How Unions Saved the Constitution

Linda R. Monk, J.D.: How Unions Saved the Constitution

In rallies much like those currently being held in Wisconsin, and across the nation in state capitals this Saturday, workers during America's first Gilded Age fought back against the forces of corporate greed that ground them to the bone.

In those days, the Supreme Court believed that the First Amendment to the Constitution, which protects freedom of speech, only applied to the federal government, not the states and the local governments.