Posted on 12/06/2012 5:01:27 PM PST by Nachum
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan House passes right-to-work measure in defiance of angry
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Thank you Mark Ouimet. Unfortunately, I’m stuck with a dim state rep after lame duck, but this is one hell of a parting shot.
It will be nice for some folks who make minimum wage not to give the damn unions a dime of their money.
When RTW was being debated in Indiana last year, a Representative made in interesting point. She said that “A right to work measure is not an attack in unions. Actually, giving people the freedom to choose to join a union will make unions more accountable to their members.”
Think about it. In a forced union environment, does the union really give a damn what their members think when they are forced to join and forced to pay dues? All that the union wants are their dues and 51% of the vote to strike. Plus, those dues are being used for PACs and other activities that members may not even want or agree with.
I think that is one reason why there are union members that want RTW. They want the union to be accountable to them. In Indiana, there were stories of union members being dragged out of union meetings just for opposing a union strike or policy. RTW will change that and members will simply leave the union if it doesn’t serve them.
I wrote my post before hearing what the governor said but his points were basically the same that I wrote.
Maybe there's something in the Michigan water.
More seriously, maybe it has to do with Republicans in heavily unionized states like Michigan seeing that lots of union members are actually pretty decent guys. The big problem is the union leadership, not the rank-and-file.
Get rid of mandatory union membership and some unions will go back to helping their members. The rest won't be around for long, or won't have enough members to be a problem.
Not a chance!
After the ‘little 3’ went to a 2-tier wage system there is no chance that those 2nd tier employees will keep paying dues when they get half the wage and very few benefits.
They will lose 90% of those new members within months of this taking effect.
Two hours per month. Over 400 employees working there, that adds up.
But it is not a fallacy that weaker unions have a harder time to shut businesses down.
Well said.
Free association? Fine.
Except for government employees. Unions + Democrats + Government = Corruption and Bankruptcy. They should be banned.
His T-shirt reads: SEIU/Obama
What a surprise!
Really? Come to Texas....
WINNING!!! (No. 1, House)
WINNING!!! (No. 2, Senate)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2966393/posts
Just kinda makes you smile at the thought of all those Dem heads detonating, doesn’t it???
Actually it does. I’m in S.E. TN and we have plenty of non-union jobs while still making a good wage. People are moving here from all over to take these jobs. TN is a right to work state and unions don’t do well here. Since they can’t swindle workers out of their hard earned money they can’t stay long. Company’s know this. If a union does manage to get in, since workers are not forced to join, the unions can’t make money. If we weren’t a right to work state, company’s would just pack up and leave the way they have in other states.
company’s=companies
DUH!
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