All that’s left is to dot the i’s and cross the t’s, and Michigan, powered by its shiny new Democratic trifecta, will repeal its right-to-work law.
It amazes me that working people who hate unions (because they take their money) have no problem with companies ripping them off by lowballing them and treating them like crap.
The repeal of the law won’t do much. What that repeal facilitates …better pay, better working conditions and better benefits will if it’s seen by workers deprived of those things under “right to work” in other states.
Right to work was a head fake. A lie. It was about Union busting and depriving the Democratic party of a funding source: Unions. It was advanced on lies like the person making 40 bucks an hour putting hub caps on cars. The lies worked. Folks thought the Unions were fucking them over so they went for Right to Work. Then the real fucking began.
There should be a constructive name / description for these efforts - better than:
“Repeal of ‘Right to Work’ law”
Find a lable that makes more sense.
On the basis of pure simple sloganism - to the average person - it would seem that a “Right to Work” should be A-OK … hunky-dory , just a fantastic thing… when in fact it is a misleading piece of twisted propaganda
Do not use the anti-organized labor terminology that the union busters have crafted.
The best way to counter a lie is to place it next to the truth. Right to Work’s primary effects on workers were negative but that was assuaged with lies about the Unions screwing them. If Michigan is able to show real improvement in the lot of it’s blue collar folks via repeal of this lie that will be the truth that Right to Work will have to square off with in other states.
I paid 45 bucks a month to the UFCW for 15 years. Now the UFCW pension pays me 900 a month for the rest of my life.
Union Yes!
I wrote a long blog essay, occasioned by the loss of Tim Ryan’s recent Senate campaign, that explores the various factors behind the reversal of the American labor sector, the outsourcing of factory jobs, and the myth that the “Democratic Party abandoned the working class.”
I posted it on TPM’s Hive section, but disruptive trolls shut it down.
If you’re interested you can find it here.
Right to work laws are insidious. People often are reluctant to pay union dues because they are working for low pay, living payday to payday, and they need that money. Sure, it’s short sighted, and the union might get them better pay and benefits down the road, but they actually do need that money now. Add in the appeal to freeloaders, and the appeal to owners’ selfishness, and you have a law that rests on and encourages human faults.
It’s a perfect vicious circle, because the weaker the union is, the less able to negotiate for better pay and working conditions. But it’s wonderful for managers and owners, because the nastier they are to workers in a “right to work for less” state, the more resources the union has to expend while at the same time having less money and fewer people to call on.
Boom Boom Mancini was also from Youngstown. Ryan, like Mancini, was also a lightweight contender.
Heavyweight boxer Earnie Shavers was also from that area.
And perhaps even more surprisingly, it seems that right-to-work laws directly hurt the Democratic Party. A 2018 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that right-to-work laws reduce Democratic presidential vote shares by 3.5 percentage points, with similar effects on Senate, House, gubernatorial and state legislative races.
Seems more likely that these laws and the reduced voting for dems share a common cause than it is that causality flows from these laws to the voting booth
Great, another ultra-woke leftist loonie state run by George Soros denying workers the right to work for low wages, long hours, unsafe conditions and no benefits. Communism! What happened to mah murca?
So, communism, basically. I bet you just live to punish hard-working billionaires!
You’ve never worked a union job in your life, have you?
So is my (Youngstown) kitchen 
This is the perfect argument for universal income; i.e. $1000/mo come rain, come shine.
The problem with that idea, obviously, is that it raises all the boats, something inveterate ladder-pulling Rethugliklans vehemently oppose.
Dear Hubby, when he was still at Aramark, swore up and down that he would never, ever take a job that was unionized.
His mind was changed when Aramark terminated him without notice and tried to block his being able to collect unemployment for the six weeks he was out of work. it was all bull, every bit of it.
Now he is with the American Red Cross, which is unionized, and while he isn’t happy with the union leadership (who is, ever?), he is enjoying having a whole lot more support with his job. He’s been happy with ARC for over four years and looks forward to retiring from them in ten.
You live in Youngstown? Or your kitchen was built there?
Kitchen. IOW, my house came with a full Youngstown kitchen
