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the force of federal law, the Virginia amendment was without effect.
The 1985 legislature then passed a resolution urging Baliles to bring suit to force Metro to comply with the Virginia law. To prepare the ease, two of the most distinguished lawyers in the state, John S. Battle Jr., a Democrat, and Robert Patterson, a Republican, were hired. Last week, their preparations complete, Baliles filed suit in the Arlington Circuit Court asking that the collective bargaining agreement between Metro and the Amalgamated Transit Union be thrown out. The ensuing legal action could take months or even years.
It has been a long, complex and expensive process, and with Baliles resigning at the end of the month to devote his full time of running for governor, the suit will be one of his last legal initiatives as attorney general.
Whatever else it might do, Baliles’ handling of the matter shows that he is no more soft on enforcing the right-to-work law in 1985 than Durrette was soft on abortion in 1974.
As it turns out, both charges are bum raps. Both candidates would do well to forget about them and get on to the legitimate issues which will determine who will be sworn in as “Virginia’s next great governor” come next January.
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