Unions Use Legislation to Eradicate 'Right to Work' Laws

When unions come under attack for their "Marxist" style of control over the worker, they lash out against anything that might divide the work force from the company and the population in general. If unions can't convince the workers on their own they naturally turn to government.

With this new legislation that is proposed by Sherman from California, it's clear that the unions have to get the government involved to solve their collective problem of declining membership. This is plan to see where individual freedom to chose one's own future is a threat, the unions counter attack with legislation that will ensure that individual freedom of choose be eradicated from the workers and the American way of life.

Who backs the unions in this grab for illegitimate power? Easy enough to understand that the Democrats want to maintain control of every person that they can even if it means destroying our way of life to do it.

Stop this nonsense now by voting out the socialists this November.

Right to Work = Economic Growth
Source: Greg Schneider, "Right to Work = Economic Growth," Daily Caller, October 13, 2010.

California Congressman Brad Sherman (D) has introduced legislation to repeal right-to-work laws in the 22 states that have them. "Right-to-work" refers to the right of states to prohibit closed shops, a workplace that requires a worker to be a member of a labor union and to pay dues to that union, says Greg Schneider, a senior fellow with the Kansas Policy Institute and an associate professor of history at Emporia State University.

Private sector union membership has declined since the mid-1950s, especially as companies shifted production to lower-cost states in the Sun Belt. Private sector union membership was once as high as 45 percent of the workforce but today it's around 15 percent.

Unions blame right-to-work laws for their plight. But increasingly the number of union jobs declined because the companies where unions were dominant -- the Big Three automakers for instance -- could not remain competitive under the old economic model, says Schneider.
Let's look at some facts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

From 1999 to 2009, right-to-work states have added 1.5 million private sector jobs for a 3.7 percent increase; states which are not right-to-work lost 1.8 million jobs over the same decade, for a decline of 2.3 percent. Some states, like Michigan and Ohio, home of the powerful United Auto Workers Union, have hemorrhaged private sector jobs, declining 17 percent and 10 percent respectively over that time period.

The question here is simply about individual liberty, says Schneider. Should the individual worker have the right to decide whether to pay dues to a union, or should that decision be forced on him by others?