Michigan Workers and Families Have Been Hurt
“If Michiganders can keep the momentum going this year, they may soon have their Right to Work law back.”
You have to figure that the brain trusts at the National Labor Relations Board didn’t think about the impact that their efforts to punish companies that move to Right to Work states would have on non-Right to Work states.
But those arguments became front and center at a House hearing on the issue when Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) said “New businesses won’t want to locate in union states, because the same thing that is happening to Boeing will happen to them. It creates the impression that we dont want to start up in those states, because once we grow up were stuck.”
The NLRB decision essentially creates a “Roach Motel” for companies that decide to locate in non-Right to Work states — they can check in but they can never check out.
“If Michiganders can keep the momentum going this year, they may soon have their Right to Work law back.”
On average, forced-unionism states are roughly 22% 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.
Under the Election Protection Rule issued by NLRB members appointed during the previous Trump Administration, mere allegations of employer misconduct could not block employees from having the decertification vote they requested.