Posted on 09/08/2015 1:29:10 PM PDT by george76
As you watch your children board the school bus for the first day back to classes, consider this: That school bus driver is likely forced to pay fees to a union as a condition of driving that bus.
Why? Because he or she works in one of the 25 forced-unionism states in America — states where it is lawfully permissible to force a worker to pay fees to a union as a condition of employment.
You're not alone if this sounds absurd. According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly 80 percent of your fellow Americans agree: No worker should be forced to pay union fees as a condition of employment.
Big Labor union bosses in your state enjoy a special privilege, allowing them to expand their ranks through compulsion. Union bosses can impose a monopoly bargaining contract that virtually always includes a forced-dues clause, which requires every employee (even the ones who did not vote for the union) to pay tribute to the union bosses — just for the privilege of having a job.
While forced unionism is just plain wrong, coercing workers into subsidizing union officials also holds back a state's economy.
With the inclusion of Wisconsin in March, there are now 25 right-to-work states in America — states that have outlawed Big Labor union bosses' ability to force workers to pay them fees as a condition of employment.
The absence of forced unionism gives right-to-work states an economic leg-up.
(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...
Clinton is now sucking up to the unions by indicating that she would like to make unions “the law of the land.” If the government can take a cut of your paycheck, the unions should be able to take their cut also. Weird stuff.
An easy way to end this is to prohibit the use of government funds or government labor to collect and disperse union dues.
Labor unions long have operated with a grant of monopoly powers under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. For one thing, the NLRA gives unions the right of exclusive representation.
In theory, the National Labor Relations Board should be one of the first lines of defense against this kind of abusive behavior. It was set up 80 years ago as an independent five-member body to protect freedom of contract for individual employees, whether unionized or not. It was not set up to advance specific interests of either unions or employers. But the NLRB hasn’t followed its mission.
http://nlpc.org/stories/2015/08/27/law-review-article-blasts-nlrb-lax-enforceemnt-beck-rights
Odd that Trump, or any other Republican, has not sounded off on this issue.
Not here he's not!
We have whatcha call a "Right to Work State" and judging by our economy, that's working just fine, thank you.
May I introduce you to Scott Walker...?
And in a related post,
Last Union Coal Mine in Kentucky Closes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3334483/post
“Liberals don’t care what you do, as long as it’s compulsory.” — M. Stanton Evans
Thanks - I guess the sound hasn’t carried that far. I’d like to see more do so and much louder.
Surprised to see Alaska is not RTW. The rest are understandable in historic and political terms. The few non-coastal Western States (MT, CO, NM) have sufficient mining interests that the UMW probably put them on the wrong side. If Ohio goes RTW, look for PA, WV, and Ky to follow.
A national right to work law is needed.
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