Posted on 12/12/2012 6:39:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Union bosses are fuming at the prospect of a Michigan Right to Work law, but New Yorkers concerned about protecting employee freedom and reviving their state’s flagging economy should consider Michigan’s example.
It’s hard to imagine the Empire State adopting a Right to Work law — but it would be right for businesses, taxpayers and workers.
Big Labor’s top officials huff and puff about Right to Work laws, but they never tell you what they actually do. That’s because nearly 80 percent of Americans support the Right to Work principle when it’s presented to them in straightforward terms.
Right to Work laws don’t ban unions, nor make union organizing illegal. They don’t impinge on anybody’s right to voluntarily join a labor organization. Instead, Right to Work laws ensure that no worker can be forced to join or pay dues to a union to get or keep a job.
This straightforward principle is aimed at protecting workers’ freedom of association. In New York and other states without Right to Work, nonunion employees are routinely forced to financially support unions they have no interest in joining or associating with.
And union officials then use their power to extract dues from nonunion workers to funnel that cash into Big Labor’s political war chest.
A Right to Work law would end this coercive arrangement in New York by ensuring that no worker is forced to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment. It would also help make union officials more accountable to workers: If voluntary members are the only ones paying dues, union leadership would have to become more responsive to those workers, lest it lose out on potential revenue.
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Probably would not happen with a rat governor.
FYI ping. Your state may serve as an ispiration to others.
FYI ping. Your state may serve as an inspiration to others.
Just something to take note of. Michigan is inspiring some interesting chatter around the nation.
The government shouldn’t be telling employers how to run their business.
Q. How many New Yorkers does it take to change a light bulb?
A. 50. It’s in the Union contract. Wanna makes somethin’ of it?
Probably never happen in NY
If you want to work in Barry’s America, you’re going to have to give the union mafia its cut. If you don’t, they’ll send Tony Knuckles over to your house to make you an offer you can’t refuse.
But how will the corrupt politicians and union bosses be able to skim off pension funds? (/s)
They'll get there much quicker if Indiana has RTW and New York and California don't.
consider all the wall street pension fund managers who would have to buy a lesser testosteronosa supercar. Fewer union suckers means less pension dollars means GASP! pension managers may only be able to afford a G4 instead of a G5!
That’s unconstitutional! That’s against human rights! Don’t you little peons know who they are? Don’t you know THEY make the ecconomy function!?
(/sarcasm off)
Probably would not happen while NYC is part of New York. People in NYC seem to think freedom is over-hyped.
Compared to the NY city unions, the Mafia was a benevolent community service organization.
Dear Union Thugs,
Please Google Martin Niemoller. Obama is letting you be, for now, because he needs you. But one day he will need your money more than he needs you, and he will come for you.
Who will speak up for you then?
Republicans are admitting they need a Democrat to lead them! Jones says they need to work with the Governor. Great. Just great!
The goombahs would NEVER allow that to happen.
Theater is a major business in NYC, and the weight and demands of union hiring (more than a dozen for a Broadway show) are a real drag on how many of what type of shows can be mounted. (E.g., smaller casts and orchestras than ideal in many cases.)
Along with being a brake on the development and sharing of art—boosting much playgoing out of the affordable range for many City residents—IMO it is an infringement upon first amendment freedom of speech.
Of course, any producer who tried to go to court over it would be a pariah in the business, but still I’d like to see it pressed by someone.
NY is under control of the darkside. RTW will not happen there.
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