Union Special Privileges vs. Affordability
In addition to helping make the necessities and amenities of life more affordable, Right to Work laws help keep individual and family aggregate state-local tax burdens from spiraling out of control.
The AFL-CIO is putting a target on Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and five other Republican governors in the 2014 election, WHTC reports:
The union’s Political Director Michael Podhorzer told the audience at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. Tuesday the organization will go after lawmakers who battled organized labor. The union cites right to work laws, collective bargaining and voting rights as issues very important to their membership.

In addition to helping make the necessities and amenities of life more affordable, Right to Work laws help keep individual and family aggregate state-local tax burdens from spiraling out of control.
In response to a staffing crisis, the elected Lee County School Board (LCSB) approved an incentive plan to attract and retain teachers for high-need schools and hard-to-fill subject areas.
In the wake of Big Labor’s capture of the governorship and tightening of its grip over the Virginia General Assembly in last fall’s elections, union strategists are eager for passage of a law mandating union monopoly bargaining over the compensation and work rules of state and local civil servants.