225 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including 69 from Right to Work states, voted for H.R.842, legislation that would cut the heart out of every state Right to Work statute and constitutional provision that is currently on the books.
Subsequent to Right to Work passage, West Virginia employment expanded every year up to 2019, when employment reached 759,000, higher than it had been in more than a decade.
Using the widespread economic hardship caused by COVID-19 and the political response to it as an excuse, President Joe Biden and his D.C. cronies are now transferring hundreds of billions of dollars from hard-pressed federal taxpayers to union boss-dominated states and localities.
The amount of money contributed to the Big Labor-dominated retirement funds commonly referred to as multi-employer pension plans, or MEPPs, is directly determined through union monopoly bargaining.
In addition to being correlated with faster job growth, Right to Work is correlated with higher real, after-tax incomes.
“But the vote illustrated how congressional support for Right to Work has grown in recent years, and paved the way for future gains.”
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and the other members of her Democrat Party caucus voted to toss out the window constitutional principles upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Biden's administration has been cynically furnishing union bosses with excuses to keep schools shuttered, despite clear evidence they can reopen...