Big Labor is now demanding that, even in staunchly pro-Right to Work states like Virginia, politicians must support compulsory unionism to receive its backing. “There is no doubt that a rising share of elected officials in Virginia are dependent on the Big Labor machine to get in power and stay in power,” noted National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix.
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As journalist Mike Antonucci recently pointed out, there are 14 states in which the number of working NEA union members fell by more than 30% between 2008-9 and 2017-18. All 14 are now Right to Work states. Teachers With Free…
A Detroit News story went so far as to suggest that a “federal racketeering case against” the UAW union itself is increasingly likely.
Union officials are seemingly prosecutable under the Hobbs Act, which prohibits the use of extortionate threats and violence.
Virginians’ Right to Work could be in grave peril in 2020, depending on the outcome of this fall’s elections.
You can go here to read the October 2019 National Right to Work Newsletter.
“For decades, with the National Committee's leadership, Right to Work members have successfully opposed Big Labor schemes to repeal or gut the state statutes in North Carolina and Virginia that expressly prohibit any government-sector bargaining,” noted Mr. Kalb. “And according to a carefully documented 2018 study for the Cato Institute, states that expressly prohibit or at least do not statutorily authorize monopoly bargaining in K-12 public education typically do a better job of educating schoolchildren at a more reasonable cost to taxpayers.”
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A 2018 overview summarized the growing body of evidence regarding the economic impact of state Right to Work laws.
“Among the 17 states with the highest share of public employees under union monopoly control,” noted Mr. Mix, “state and local taxes combined consumed 11.0% of all personal income in 2016.
The CSRA statutorily imposes union monopoly bargaining over federal employee disciplinary procedures and other work rules.
Here is where you can go to read the September 2019 National Right To Work Newsletter.
The peak-earning-year population fell by 4.6% from 2008 to 2018, but in the 22 states that had Right to Work laws there was no overall net decline at all.
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