State Republicans designed the "right to work" law in South Carolina for workers in unionized plants to receive the same benefits dues-paying union members get - without paying a dime to the union in contract with the company.
DeMint and Graham say "right-to-work is winning the future" in South Carolina and America. That's bullshit. Again, if winning the future is allowing nonunion members to ride the backs of union members who pay and fight for hard-earned benefits, then it's the past they are winning. A backward future, shall I say.
The only people pushing such laws are far right, corporate sponsored shrewd politicians (like the two who penned the gem above).
Twenty two states, they say, are "right to work" in America. No, all the states in the union provide a right to work. They don't, however, provide for nonunion members to ride the backs of dues-paying union members.
Take Missouri, for example.
If you were to ask me whether Missouri would be able to get a right-to-work-for-less bill, which would basically bust the private unions, out of its pretty conservative legislature, I’d have to say that was likely. Missouri has a Democratic governor, Jay Nixon, so it may have stopped there. But passage in the legislature seemed likely. It didn’t happen.
And not all Republicans buy the corporate dribble, either.
Since I'm no longer on the fence because of those examinations, I felt it important to explain why House Bill 474-FN, also known as the Right to Work Act, is wrong for New Hampshire. The term "right to work," or RTW, is very misleadingly named. You may think that it means a guarantee of employment for people ready and willing to work. It doesn't guarantee anything. What it does do is allow employees who don't join a union, and don't pay union dues, to receive the same benefits from those union negotiations with their employers as those employees who do pay dues. In other words, getting something for nothing. In effect it would eventually make unions obsolete as their membership would no longer be required to pay the dues that a union uses to support itself and its members.
And this, my fellow readers, hasn't a damn thing to do with the Boeing/NLRB saga.
You can forget the corporate media here in South Carolina doing its job in educating the people when elected lawmakers outright lie. They do not want to jeopardize their revenue - business advertising dollars.
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