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Big win for eastern Kentucky , would of never happened without right to work .
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This June, construction began on an aluminum mill ultimately expected to employ 600 people earning an average salary of roughly $70,000 a year in eastern Kentucky. It wouldn’t have happened without Right to Work.
Appalachian County Welcomes $1.5 Billion Mill
Without Right to Work, Kentucky ‘Wouldn’t Have Been on the List’
On a site located near Ashland in eastern Kentucky’s Greenup County, Braidy Industries Inc. recently began construction on a $1.5 billion rolling aluminum mill that will ultimately employ an estimated 600 people in high-paying jobs.
Braidy CEO Craig Bouchard originally announced that Greenup County would be the location for what is now expected to be a 1.8 million-square-foot facility in April 2017.
Kentucky “wouldn’t have been on the list” of possible sites, he said, had the state not enacted a Right to Work law at the beginning of that year.
"Right to Work laws are associated with lower wages and benefits for both union and nonunion workers. In RTW states, the average worker makes 3.1 percent less in hourly wages than the average worker with similar characteristics in non-RTW states."
"Through weakening unions, RTW laws hurt the middle class. As union membership has declined in recent decades, the share of overall income received by the middle class is close to a post-WWII low."
"Corporate lobbies advocate for RTW laws not to create jobs or give workers more freedom, but to restrict unionization and make it harder for workers to have an effective voice in negotiating with their employers."
"RTW laws seek to hamstring unions’ ability to help employees bargain with their employers for better wages, benefits, and working conditions. Given that unionization raises wages both for individual union members as well as for nonunion workers in unionized sectors, it is not surprising that research shows that both union and nonunion workers in RTW states have lower wages and fewer benefits, on average, than comparable workers in other states."
"Right-to-work laws are about increasing the power of corporations while restricting the power of workers to join together in unions, rather than worker freedom or job creation."
"By reducing workers’ voice, right-to-work laws drive down the wages and reduce the economic well-being of all workers—union and nonunion alike. At the same time, right-to-work laws make it easier for more of the economy’s gains to flow straight to the country’s wealthiest people."
Yet RTW states are the ones growing with net in-migration. RTW states are the ones attracting foreign manufacturers and HQ relocation for U.S. companies. Something wrong with charges of negative consequences by anti-RTW.
yet rtw states are the ones growing with net in-migration. Rtw states are the ones attracting foreign manufacturers and hq relocation for u.s. Companies. Something wrong with charges of negative consequences by anti-rtw.
Yet RTW states are the ones growing with net in-migration. RTW states are the ones attracting foreign manufacturers and HQ relocation for U.S. companies. Something wrong with charges of negative consequences by anti-RTW.
Yep...all the bottom feeder employers are flocking to RTW states, they love paying the lowest wages allowed by law.
I was born in Redwood City, located just south of San Francisco, in 1948.
I've lived in Atherton (my grandparents had a house there), San Carlos, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Santa Clara all during my formative years so I know the area well.
Should say knew because it has changed so much I no longer recognize it.
I remember the El Camino being a two lane road with orchards on both sides as we traveled from Palo Alto to Mountain View, to Sunnyvale and Santa Clara.
For a while we lived on McQue Avenue in San Carlos and I noticed the 3 br, 1 bath single car garage home I spent my early years in is estimated to be worth $1,750,000.
Whatever.
So you scrape together the $175,000 for a 10% down payment and with a 4.25% 30 year loan you are faced with payments of $7,748.05 that don't include the property taxes or homeowners insurance.
Of the 10 cities surveyed by Hired for its annual State of Salaries report, the Bay Area pays its tech workers the most, with an average annual salary of $142,000 – nearly $1,000 higher than the global average.
And somehow they brag about the great six figure wage they're earning but what ends up happening is instead of purchasing a house they rent a room, or part of a room, sharing a single bathroom with 10 other people. And this is great California living?
So... continue on how we hicks in Georgia earn less than half a California tech worker earns and how that is all because we rednecks are the stupid ones.
Think 'those folks' would be interested to know that a quarter of all homeless people in the country(114,000) live in California? Think they're counted in the poverty numbers?
Can anyone tell me what their benefits are. Do they have a 401 and retirement. How about healthcare
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