Higher Prices Don’t Make Workers ‘Wealthier’
Six of the bottom seven states for purchasing power are forced-unionism states, highlighting the economic impact of compulsory union membership.
In Indianapolis, local contractors have been shut out of the bidding process to renovate a local hospital. The closed-bid process was foisted on construction plans by the union bosses. By closing competitive bidding, hospital construction costs will be 20 to 30% higher than needed and taxpayers will be left paying for the overruns. Rather than more hospital beds or better facilities, the hospital choice to give taxpayer funds to the union bosses. That is sick.
Six of the bottom seven states for purchasing power are forced-unionism states, highlighting the economic impact of compulsory union membership.
For years, states with Right to Work protections for employees have been driving U.S. factory job growth.
Big Labor bosses will eagerly advance agendas that lower real incomes and destroy jobs if they simultaneously fatten union coffers. But neither rank-and-file union members nor union-free workers share that perspective!