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The same forces behind current efforts to take away collective bargaining rights and destroy the middle class were behind job-stealing trade deals like NAFTA, The Nation's John Nichols reports. Click here for video from "The Ed Show."

In this segment that aired on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" last night, The Nation's John Nichols and host Ed Schultz explain (and have documents to show) how the same forces behind job-offshoring trade deals are behind these latest efforts to break unions in Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and elsewhere. 

Nichols reports that CEOs and their political allies are trying to dismantle the "people power" only unions can bring to fight back against policies aimed to make the rich richer and leave everyone else behind. Check out this important report, then pass it on: