[Graybeard58]

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[4Liberty]

Collective bargaining isn’t a “right.”

It’s a violation (intrusion into) others’ rights.

[cripplecreek]

I personally think RTW is the single most damaging thing that can happen to the democrats. Hundreds of millions of dollars flow directly from unions into democrat campaign coffers. Plus, its a fight that seems to throw the democrats into real turmoil.

I can't think of a better time for a couple more GOP held states to push forward on RTW than right now when it will throw the democrats off balance.

How right-to-work won in Michigan

Michigan became a right-to-work state so swiftly that the Detroit Free Press couldn’t settle on a cliché to describe it: The legislation “moved like greased lightning,” wrote its reporters on December 7. When Republican governor Rick Snyder signed it four days later, as thousands of protesters marched and chanted around the capitol in Lansing, the Free Press observed that everything had happened “in the blink of an eye.”

In one sense, the newspaper’s clichés were on the money: The Michigan GOP had moved with startling speed to deliver a surprise victory against union power in what is probably the state most associated with Big Labor. Yet none of it would have been possible without a struggle that stretched back a generation, to a time when the idea of protecting Michigan’s workers from mandatory union membership seemed charmingly quixotic at best and a distracting fantasy at worst. Today, as conservatives plot their comeback from a painful defeat, the story of how right-to-work came to Michigan may provide an important lesson in how principle, planning, and patience can pay off.

[SeeSharp]

It's time to move beyond Right-To-Work. What we need next is Right-To-Bargain. Right-To-Work laws permit an employee to opt out of joining the union and paying its dues. But that's it. The employee still has to accept whatever wages and benefits the union negotiates, even thought he's not a member. The Wagner Act forbids employees from negotiating as individuals with the employer if there is a union in the shop.

[Past Your Eyes]

Bump. Great editorial.