Banning Compulsory Dues Curbs Cost of Living
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.
Right to Work will bring much needed jobs to Pennsylvania, Jack Markowitz correctly argues in the Pittsburgh Tribune:
Lacking the best ammunition, Pennsylvania is no sharpshooter at bagging new jobs, Matthew Wagner will tell you.
“We offer tax breaks,” he said. “Then we don’t see the tax benefits for years, if ever.”
There’s such an obviously better way, he says: Make Pennsylvania a “right-to-work” state. Like 24 others by now, as one by one, they have seen the light. Why else have foreign auto plants flocked to the Sun Belt, for example?
And what else but a right-to-work jurisdiction do most company decision-makers — 70 percent — say is the kind of place they’d prefer to locate?
To put it bluntly, it translates to weaker unions.
Workers can’t be forced to join a union as a job condition or to pay union dues, a growing political sticking point. Millions in dues collections get bundled to elect candidates favored by union leadership but not necessarily by Joe Lunchbox. And in Pennsylvania, compulsory dues collections approach a half-billion dollars a year.
All walks of life would prosper more if we went right-to-work, says Wagner. Read more
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.
Jewish MIT students assert their rights under Civil Rights Act by requesting religious exemptions from funding union, but union officials continue to demand dues payments
This winter top bosses of the Miami-based United Teachers of Dade (UTD) are indeed in danger of being thrown to the curb.