Michigan economist and American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Perry is commending pro-Right to Work elected officials in his state for adopting a statute prohibiting the collection of forced union dues and fees from employees as a condition of getting or keeping a job. In a blog post on this remarkable Right to Work victory, Dr. Perry doesn’t hesitate to take on the President of the United States:
In a stop yesterday in Michigan, President Obama repeated his frequent pro-labor union mantra that the “right-to-work” has “nothing to do with economics” and “everything to do with politics.” Let me suggest exactly the opposite – that the “right-to-work” has nothing at all to do with politics, and almost everything to do with the economics of job creation. Rather, it’s forced unionism that has everything to do with politics, and consequently everything to do with job destruction.
Using the widespread economic hardship caused by COVID-19 and the political response to it as an excuse, President Joe Biden and his D.C. cronies are now transferring hundreds of billions of dollars from hard-pressed federal taxpayers to union boss-dominated states and localities.
The amount of money contributed to the Big Labor-dominated retirement funds commonly referred to as multi-employer pension plans, or MEPPs, is directly determined through union monopoly bargaining.
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