There's a petition in support at http://righttoworkcommittee.org/rprtwa_petition.aspx?pid=he2
A neutral question - is this a proper use of federal authority?
Glad to see there is fight in them, but I would rather see it be done at the state level. The states are on a roll and they need to keep it going.
I’d be happy with the repeal of the check-off that allows Unions to deduct money for dues directly out of worker’s paychecks. Right now, workers don’t really have any idea how much the Unions are skimming off their weekly pay.
Make them collect dues by having the workers write a dues check directly to the Union. That way, workers get a real sense of how much they have to shell out to Union Bosses and ‘rat politicians.
Dues would plummet, and ‘rats would find it difficult to get money without this pool of cash.
Private Are ok. Govenrment ones should be banned.
I’m distressed by the fact that the narrative currently in vogue, (even among conservatives, even on this very thread) seems to run like this,
“Public sector unions are REALLY bad. There are some bad things in private sector unions, too, but they aren’t pure evil like public sector unions. Private sector unions, especially at the turn of the century, were actually pretty good.”
Here’s how the purely evil, anti-American, communistic, welfare-begging private sector unions work…..
I set up a factory, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY (my capital and/or cash money).
I pay for the space, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I pay the taxes using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I supply the parts and inventory, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I pay for the insurance, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I pay the labor, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I recruit, hire, and advertise, using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Oftentimes an entire life’s savings (MY PRIVATE PROPERTY) is at stake.
My future, my standing in the community, my credit, and MY PRIVATE PROPERTY are all at stake.
If I fail, I stand a good chance of being economically crippled for life.
One day, on MY PRIVATE PROPERTY that I own and acquired using MY PRIVATE PROPERTY, one of my employers, who is only in my presence because of the risk of MY PRIVATE PROPERTY comes to me and says, “Here’s the story, Bub. From this moment forward I am going to begin organizing your other employees to work AGAINST YOUR PRIVATE INTERESTS and do everything in our power to TAKE BY FORCE AS MUCH OF YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY AS WE CAN GET OUR HANDS ON. We are going to spend a great deal of time and effort ORGANIZING AGAINST YOUR INTERESTS TO DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO GROW STRONGER AT YOUR EXPENSE, IN ORDER TO TAKE YOUR MONEY. You might as well have your business competitors working here on the shop floor. If you do not agree to our demands, we will go on strike, make your life miserable, harass and threaten and/or MURDER IN COLD BLOOD anybody you may want to hire in our place.”
Now the one and ONLY way that such a thing could EVER take place is for the government to step in and say, “Mr. Employer, if you fire this union man, you are going to jail.” Plainly and simply, no union could ever exist in a free society. Yes, in a free society, you should be able to form and join a union of any type at any time for any purpose whatsoever. And your employer should be able to fire your happy ass in a heartbeat for doing so. Freedom is a two way street.
I find this ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Truly. A man strolls onto the PRIVATE PROPERTY of another man and tells him how he will employ his PRIVATE PROPERTY going forward, OR ELSE!, and hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people the world over think that the first man is not only somehow better than sub-human filth, they actually see him as a hero! To me, this is one of the most perverse and mystifying examples of twisted human thinking the world has ever seen. I can’t say it enough, you come onto my PRIVATE PROPERTY, and bargain with me, using the THREAT OF GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED FORCE, about how much of my PRIVATE PROPERTY you will allow me to keep! And this is somehow acceptable?
As I say, even conservatives, (who have escaped the liberal brainwashing that begins when we are still in the womb on guns, race, US history, etc., etc., and do not subscribe to the easy notions that are so readily picked up by the unthinking) seem to fall for this trap. Seem to believe that…“The work place is filled with mean managers and mean bosses who were/are really mean to kids and women and workers and paid them pennies instead of the legitimate millions that they REALLY earned, making evil white male capitalists even richer and they enslaved them and coerced them and made them work real hard and were really, really mean. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for the government stepping in and saving women and children from mean bosses and really mean white capitalist men.”
Needless to say, each and every single word of that narrative is as totally false and ridiculous as the liberal narrative on US history, or bad guns, or evil white men. If you know people who believe that stuff, you cannot help them. Do not waste your breath on them, do not do their research for them; have them read Sowell or Williams or von Hayek, or von Mises, or Friedman, or even Stossel when they write of “sweatshops” either in today’s 3rd world or in America at the turn of the century.
Make the dims defend NATIONALLY the concept that someone must join a union to take a job.
Less then 1/2 the dim caucus can do this, splitting them on the issue...or forcing them to defend the unions against the will of the American people.
Perfect wedge issue.
To start out with, union violence and sabotage in furtherance of their goals should be treated exactly the same as would a business which engaged in violence against competitors.
Don’t worry, Boehner will tie it up, as he has for years....Demwits need do nothing.
Wow! Let’s see if the “pro-choicers” put their money where their mouth is now.
Uhm...NO.
This is out of the imprimatur of the Constitution and the Fed has absolutely no business in creating a one size fits all law.
It is, in fact, a 10th amendment right of responsibility and an option of action by agency to construct laws of the individuals right to exercise their agency to protect them selves from and restrict collective coertion to maintain the right of the individual who can or will make the best decision for themselves.
Freedom of association is a part of the 1st
Amendment. A Right to Work law protects that
freedom by preventing unions from forcing
membership and payment of dues whether you
want that or not. Unions have this power
enshrined in many state labor laws. They use the
force of law to deprive you of a means to earn a
living unless you pay then “protection money” in
the form of “dues”. It’s a criminal racket. End it.
If you want to join a union on a voluntary basis,
that is your choice.
It will be killed by Senate RINOs.
Interesting headline. See, it's not, "A group of conservative U.S. senators has introduced a bill to give workers choice", it's a bill to "restrict unions". What the hell has got into Fox News?
bunch of posers and numbnutz....
they must have gotten this idea from Newt...
Big mistake. We sent them there with a carefully restrained list of issues. There was wide public agreement on those issues. Adding all this peripheral stuff just loses you part of your support. Ed Rollins was right, every stance you take will result in those opposed becoming enemies. Take enough stances, and everybody will find something not to like about you.
Add to that the fact that the left is trying to confuse the issue of reigning in corrupt public unions with being anti-union, and all these guys will accomplish is to help them. It’s a state issue, let the states that want it, do it.