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Bernie Sanders, speaking before a Machinists’ union conference in Las Vegas, vowed to eliminate Right-to-Work laws if elected President.
What does everyone think of Right-to-Work laws? It seems like a pretty basic right not to be forced to join or pay and organization against your will. Unions also use dues money for political lobbying that a member might not agree with. I have seen polls that show over 70% of the US people support Right-to-Work. Right-to-Work has been spread to 27 states now.
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A bill establishing one, the National Right-to-Work Act, was introduced in the House of Representatives on February 1, 2017, by two Republican congressmen, Steve King of Iowa and Joe Wilson of South Carolina; it would repeal provisions in all other federal labor laws that allow unionized workplaces to fire employees for failing to pay union dues.
Right-to-work is a right to work for less and will completely destroy the remaining labor unions in this country. Benefiting from strong unions but not be willing to pay is just wrong. Its freeloading. Freeloading is not a basic right.
A person can not be serious when they claim they support strong labor unions while at the same time supporting right-to-work-for-less laws.
No country has every had a strong middle class without strong labor unions. There is a reason why the ruling class always goes for the throat/the labor unions in their war against the working class. There is power in numbers and when capital is highly organized while labor is disorganized, capital always wins. At the expense of Joe Sixpack.
Whats interesting is that people on the far right seek to destroy labor unions which is a huge gift to employers who push for massive illegal immigration. A labor market with no proper labor rights is a massive pull factor for illegal immigration. In labor markets with strong labor rights thats enforced, employers have less incentives to engage in a race-to-the-bottom.
Right-to-work is Orwelian speak for right-to-no-protections. Ironically, that means getting fired easily as well. Unions often negotiate terms where it's difficult for your employer to let you go for facetious reasons.
We have Right to work in Florida. Usually means less money, more hours or lose your job. There is no job security in Florida and much of it is due to that policy. Couple that with restrictive access unemployment benefits and you have the perfect storm for companies to fire without concern.
Isn't that overblown catastrophic thinking? Oklahoma is a right-to-work state and their teachers conducted a successful strike.
Their teachers are public employees. How successful it was remains to be seen. Teachers in Oklahoma are the lowest paid in the country and the billionaire class who push for the destruction of labor unions will not settle until no one has a labor union. The unionization rate is falling steadily every year, and the middle class share of the national income follows the exact same pattern. In other words; as unions are destroyed, so is the middle class.
The ruling class of course knows this. Thats why they attack labor unions so viciously. They know that a lone ranger, a lone worker, doesnt stand a chance against a well equipped platoon.
So workers having strength in numbers is obsolete but big business organizing to push their agenda with no serious pushback is not obsolete?
collusion is already illegal. otherwise I don't know what you are referring to. sounds like more corporations are evil boogeyman nonsense. educate yourself on why unions came to be.
collusion is already illegal. otherwise I don't know what you are referring to. sounds like more corporations are evil boogeyman nonsense. educate yourself on why unions came to be.
Big business lobbying and buying legislation through a corrupt campaign finance system is not illegal. Its legalized corruption. Capital is highly organized. Workers being disorganized while capital is highly organized means workers are getting destroyed and the labor share of national income over the past 40 years shows that explicitly.
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