Right to Work fight in Michigan

Right to work commentary

12/11/12

The real reason Right to Work has worked in all states that have that option is that the workers are allowed to be productive! Union work rules prevent the workers from being efficient. In the beginning their primary goal was to create safe jobs for fair pay. But soon every job became a specialty. The carpenter couldn’t touch a screw driver and the electrician couldn’t pick up a hammer. Simple! But now the unions do not protect the worker, only the dues they can extract from the workers in order to have a job. Most workers just want to do a good job and get paid without the union telling them what they can and cannot do. The UAW has driven the consumer to buy non union vehicles of higher quality and lower price for years and their membership has steadily declined. My personal experience came years ago when I had to install one of my products in a UAW plant in Flint, Michigan. It took me three days to do what I could have done in a half hour! Right to Work does not limit collective bargaining and does not lower pay or benefits but it does help companies compete free of union work rules. It also allows the worker to choose whether or not he or she wants to join the union and pay dues that are many times used to support politicians that the worker does not support.. All the union arguments are old, outdated and basically untrue. The Right to Work laws do not prevent collective bargaining and do not harm the worker, they free the worker. Right to Work states are growing jobs, have lower taxes and compete very effectively with the non Right to Work states. That's why they continue to grow.  The unions may have won the presidency but they continue to lose in the states and with the worker as their ranks continue to dwindle.