Real Incomes Higher in Right to Work States
One reason why spendable income is higher in Right to Work states is forced-dues states’ substantially higher state-local tax burdens.
One reason why spendable income is higher in Right to Work states is forced-dues states’ substantially higher state-local tax burdens.
After freedom-loving Virginia constituents were informed about Congresswoman Elaine Luria’s votes to destroy Right to Work laws in their state and 26 others, she was defeated in 2022 by a 100% pro-Right to Work challenger. (Credit: Mobilus in Mobili/Wikimedia Commons)…
Union-label Democrat politicians seized control of the Michigan Legislature while retaining their hold over the state’s governorship in the 2022 elections.
Joe Biden has heeded Big Labor zealots who insist he can gain more support from blue-collar Americans by relentlessly promoting forced unionism. The tactic is failing.
Where forced union dues are permitted, workers and other people end up with lower spendable incomes.
No union, but especially not one with multiple top officials convicted in federal court of accepting bribes and embezzling workers’ dues money, should be allowed to impose unionization on workers by colluding with company officials to bypass a secret ballot vote. That’s why it is critical that any state incentive package includes a condition that the decision over whether to unionize the proposed Ford-SK Innovation Western Tennessee plant be made with workers having the full protection of a federally supervised secret ballot vote, and absent any backroom deal between company and UAW officials.
The PRO Act is being brought back up again in the House and Senate by Democrats. If passes, it could put Right to Work freedoms at risk.
“Having floor votes on the National Right to Work Act will be a call-to-arms for hundreds of thousands of grass-roots opponents of forced unionism..."
National Right to Work Committee: Amazon “Dodged a Bullet” By Cancelling HQ2 in Forced Unionism New York National Right to Work President Mark Mix encourages Amazon to consider the advantages of locating planned Long Island City HQ in a Right…