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.”
Three words helped create thousands of jobs in Alabama when Airbus, the European aerospace firm, announced it would invest $600 million in a new airline factory in Mobile, Alabama. Those words are “Right to Work.”
“We are a right-to-work state,” Gov. Robert Bentley said. “That is, Alabama is one of 23 states that forbid workers from being forced to join a union as a condition of employment. This has resulted in weak unions in those states.
‘The cost of doing business in Alabama is low,” the Republican governor said, adding later: “I think being a right-to work state is the reason many international companies look at Alabama and the other right-to-work states.”
Sean Higgins, Washington Examiner
“If Michiganders can keep the momentum going this year, they may soon have their Right to Work law back.”
Under current law, union dues are often extracted from Idaho teachers’ paychecks without their active consent.
“...Right-to-Work is overwhelmingly popular with the commonwealth’s citizens, and states with such laws typically enjoy far faster employment growth and substantially higher cost-of-living-adjusted disposable incomes than forced-dues states.”