NTD News: National Right To Work Introduced by U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (SC)
Mark Mix and Kevin Hogan on NTD News discuss the introduction of the National Right to Work Act in the US House by Congressman Joe Wilson (SC).
Selected quotes from Unions fear they can’t stop right-to-work, by Sean Higgins in the Washington Examiner.
“You never say right-to-work in the union movement because it is a great example of naming something. Pretty often you cannot even explain right-to-work to union members without them thinking it sounds like a pretty good idea,” [Ben] Johnson [former Vermont State AFL-CIO and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president] said. Leaders struggled to come up with a euphemism that would make it sound bad.
Former AFT and AFL-CIO Union Boss sees the light and says compulsory-unionism ruining union membership
Ben Johnson “believes that security clauses have contributed to the decline of unions. In too many cases, the automatic payment system has all
owed unions to become disconnected from their members.”
SInce Obama became President through this year, six states passed Right to Work laws forcing union bosses to become responsive to members in those states.
The second major blow came when the Supreme Court ruled in [National Right to Work’s] Harris v. Quinn in 2014 that state-subsidized home healthcare workers weren’t eligible to unionize. The decision signaled that the court was re-examining old precedents regarding public-sector unions.
“I remember a conference call-in with Randi [Weingarten, AFT’s president] after Harris v. Quinn where she said we had about a year before Right to Work [principles] were applied to the public sector,” Johnson said.
That was apparently on the verge of happening in 2016 when the Supreme Court heard the case Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which challenged the union’s right to demand representation fees from nonmembers. However, the court split 4-4 in the case after Justice Antonin Scalia died, leaving the existing precedent intact.
Mark Mix and Kevin Hogan on NTD News discuss the introduction of the National Right to Work Act in the US House by Congressman Joe Wilson (SC).
“In an age of legislative overreach, this is one of the shortest bills ever introduced. The National Right to Work Act does not add a single word to federal law. It simply removes language in depression-era law that gives union officials the power to extract dues from non-union workers as a condition of employment.”
A recent poll conducted by SurveyUSA, a national pollster rated “A” by polling aggregation site FiveThirtyEight, reveals Michiganders of all backgrounds strongly oppose overturning the state’s Right to Work law.