Paul and Wilson Introduce National Right to Work Act to End Forced Union Dues for Workers
National Right to Work President applauds legislation that would prevent union officials from extracting union dues from workers as a condition…
Despite a set back in New Hampshire, Right to Work supporters, including the Speaker of the State House, have pledged to continue to press for the first Right to Work law in New England. New Hampshire’s Union Leader newspaper thinks that is a good idea:
It’s a lot easier to win a complicated economic debate when you simply assert things that are misleading. That’s how labor union supporters in the House of Representatives defeated the right-to-work bill yesterday.Opponents of the bill have claimed it is part of a “job-killing agenda.”
In fact, data show very clearly that unemployment is lower on average in right-to-work states than in non-right-to-work states. (New Hampshire is an exception in part because we have relatively little unionized labor.)
“In 1990, the average jobless rate was 5.1 percent in right-to-work states and 5.6 percent in other states,” Bloomberg columnist Amity Shlaes noted in August. “In 2000, it was 3.8 percent in right-to-work states and 4.1 percent in others. In July 2011, unemployment was 8.1 percent in right-to-work states and 8.4 percent in others.”
That is not to say that all of the difference can be attributed to right-to-work laws. But they are a positive, not a negative, factor in job growth.
Opponents also tried to blame right-to-work laws for significantly lower wages. They conveniently ignored that right-to-work states tend to be in the South and West, where wages are lower because cost of living is lower. Adjust for cost of living, and much of the wage discrepancy disappears.
House Speaker Bill O’Brien has said right-to-work would come up again. If so, legislators should stick next time to the facts.
National Right to Work President applauds legislation that would prevent union officials from extracting union dues from workers as a condition…
Big Labor’s #1 goal is the elimination of Right to Work protections for employees. To please their union-boss puppet masters, Mr. Brown and Mr. Casey both cosponsored the so-called ‘PRO’ Act, which would effectively override state Right to Work laws and impose forced union dues and fees nationwide.
The following letter was sent to President Trump by National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix on November 20th, 2024.