President Misrepresents Michigan Right To Work Laws

This Pittsburgh Tribune editorial comments on President Obama’s scorn for a Right to Work law, and a toast for a 25th!

The most shocking thing about Michigan’s right-to-work law isn’t the law itself but the outright lies the Obama administration, led by the president himself, has been telling about it.

But President Obama, ever the demagogue of dishonesty, took to the stump Monday in Redford, Mich., claiming the measure takes “away your right to bargain for better wages and working conditions.†That’s a shameful lie from a shameless president who regularly affirms his shamelessness with such deceit.

And despite the blinders worn by so many, the evidence is clear that right-to-work laws benefit companies, their employees and their states’ coffers.

The Wall Street Journal, citing a variety of sources, says that of 10 states with the highest rate of personal income growth, eight have right-to-work laws. Additionally, right-to-work states “are driving a net migration from forced-union states,†The Journal says. Which is good for the respective states’ tax swags.

And the proof is in Michigan’s rancid pudding – its compulsory unionism has preserved a long-running economic mess featuring an abysmal unemployment rate and lousy income growth.

So, here’s to No. 24. And here’s to No. 25 not being far behind.