Union Special Privileges vs. Affordability
In addition to helping make the necessities and amenities of life more affordable, Right to Work laws help keep individual and family aggregate state-local tax burdens from spiraling out of control.
Union bosses are doubling down in Virginia’s Governor race, dropping another $400,000 to try to push Creigh Deeds over the finish line. The American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees union, AFSCME, dropped the money bomb recently to help pave the way for monopoly bargaining privileges over government employees – something that has remained elusive for Big Labor in Virginia. For sure, government workers can join unions in Virginia, the problem in AFSCME’s eyes is that they can’t FORCE government employees to accept them. They need more political power to get that deed done.
In addition to helping make the necessities and amenities of life more affordable, Right to Work laws help keep individual and family aggregate state-local tax burdens from spiraling out of control.
In the wake of Big Labor’s capture of the governorship and tightening of its grip over the Virginia General Assembly in last fall’s elections, union strategists are eager for passage of a law mandating union monopoly bargaining over the compensation and work rules of state and local civil servants.
"[Spanberger] voted twice for the so-called ‘PRO Act,’ which would have destroyed the Virginia and every other state Right to Work law, and cosponsored it one last time before stepping down to run for governor."