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Groups Vow To Push ‘Right To Work' In Other States

Thursday, December 13, 2012


Did you ever see the movie Norma Rae?  Unions do try to organize in those states, but are met with the brutal thuggish tactics of union-busting managers who instill abject fear in employees who are receptive to union representation.  The same sort of tactics that we saw in the 2012 election, that if Obama was reelected employers would be forced to lay-off workers, is what employers threaten their workers with when unions try to organize.  Even though it's against the law to fire employees for being receptive to union representation, it's regularly done and employers get away with it by trumping up complaints against union-sympathizers' work.  

Why should workers not have to pay dues to a union that has gotten them higher wages and benefits?  If they don't want to pay dues, are they willing to give back the gains achieved for them by unions?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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