Monopoly Bargaining + Forced Dues = $29 Billion
In the face of gradually declining membership, Big Labor’s net assets have skyrocketed since 2010. And union bosses’ forced-dues privileges made it happen.
The Right to Work movement and independent-minded workers across America have many friends, but perhaps none more dedicated and supportive than Rep. Marilyn Musgrave.
She, once again, showed leadership on behalf of working families when she went to the House Rules Committee and pushed for consideration of a National Right to Work law. As expected, the Democrat majority shut down her amendment designed to restore volunteerism as the basis of union membership.
She knows, like AFL founder Samuel Gompers knew, that no lasting gain can be achieved through compulsion — the workers of America adhere to voluntary institutions — anything else is a menace to their rights.
In the face of gradually declining membership, Big Labor’s net assets have skyrocketed since 2010. And union bosses’ forced-dues privileges made it happen.
from 2011-21, the 22 states that had Right to Work protections for the entire decade saw a total increase of 9.3% in private-sector manufacturing employment...
As the lead writer on economic matters for the New York Times, Binyamin Applebaum is notorious for carrying water for Big Labor and forced unionism.