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The IUOE asserts that the Indiana law violates the equal protection and contract clauses of the Constitution because it does not require nonunion employees to pay for bargaining. . .
“The ‘free-rider’ argument is a carefully crafted fraud,” [National Right to Work Legal Foundation Attorney Jim Young] said.
“Nonunion employees do not demand union ‘representation’ for which they do not want to pay; it is imposed upon them by federal law, a monopoly privilege granted to unions which win a bare majority of a representation election. But unions retain the right to represent only their members.”
Labor unions in Indiana are upset over the state’s recently passed right-to-work law. According to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a right-to-work law “affirms the right of every American to work for a living without being compelled to belong to a union. Compulsory unionism in any form – ‘union,’ ‘closed,’ or ‘agency’ shop – is a contradiction of the Right to Work principle and the fundamental human right that the principle represents.”
The Granite State Poll, released by the University of New Hampshire on Friday, found that 71 percent of state residents favored “right-to-work” legislation, which seeks to prevent compulsory union membership or due paying at a workplace.
“I believe when folks try and take collective bargaining rights away by passing so-called ‘right to work’ laws that might also be called ‘right to work for less,’ laws, that’s not about economics, that’s about politics,” Obama told the AFL-CIO today. “That’s about politics.” He then credited the AFL-CIO for creating American prosperity, saying “unions like yours made sure that everybody had a fair shake, everybody had a fair shot.”
The president also said he likes to call right-to-work “right-to-work-for-less laws.” Good one. But studies about wages in right-to-work versus non-right-to-work states differ; some say they’re higher, others say they’re lower. And others note that both economic output and wages have risen faster in right-to-work states.
This is a positive trend, but as Rauh’s estimate makes clear, much work remains to be done. If reform is to succeed, it must tackle head-on the following structural factors that caused pension costs to explode in states across the nation:
The plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state, is a gamble that a less-experienced, nonunion work force will provide a strong supplement to Boeing’s core operations. The staff includes some management veterans from Washington; workers from Boeing defense sites, including some who worked on the now-retired Space Shuttle fleet; and contract labor. But it also includes trainees with no previous aerospace experience. Boeing has collaborated with the state to cultivate a work force from the region, with some new employees training for 26 to 43 weeks at nearby Trident Technical College.
George Will’s column today draws on some new research by Paul Peterson and Daniel Nadler at Harvard. They find that the higher the percentage of public employee who are unionized, the greater risk investors see of the state defaulting on its bonds, resulting in higher interest rates.
“We did everything we could to keep that plant open and keep our jobs,” said Mitchell Wood, a 44-year-old father of two who used to attach tailgates onto sport-utility vehicles at Moraine. “But in the end, we didn’t have a chance, not being in the UAW.”
The union representing Jacksonville, Fla., firefighters violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by advocating, bargaining for, and agreeing to a system for promotions that discriminates against black firefighters seeking advancement, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit filed April 30 (EEOC v. Jacksonville Ass’n of Firefighters, M.D. Fla., No. 3:12-cv-491-3-34, complaint filed 4/30/12).
