Tyranny Triumphs in the Great Lakes State
Ignoring ample evidence of forced unionism’s unfairness and its damaging impact on jobs and incomes, Big Labor Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Right to Work destruction in 2023.
Montana Democrats endorsed a party platform this week that specifically rejects workers’ choice and the Right to Work. Montana’s neighbors: Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming, have all benefited from the enactment of a Right to Work law. Surrounded by a sea of worker choice states, the Democratic Party of Montana just hung up a sign on the state that says “closed for business.”
This is not a theoretical debate. Just ask the working folks of Kentucky who lost a billion-dollar investment by VW to neighboring Tennessee — a Right to Work state.
Ignoring ample evidence of forced unionism’s unfairness and its damaging impact on jobs and incomes, Big Labor Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Right to Work destruction in 2023.
On average, forced-unionism states are 23.2% more expensive to live in than Right to Work states. And decades of academic research show that compulsory unionism actually fosters a higher cost of living.
Strong employment gains in Right to Work states are the reason more Americans are working now than pre-COVID.