‘You Can’t Even Pay Companies to Invest There’
For years, states with Right to Work protections for employees have been driving U.S. factory job growth.
The influence of big labor on the legislature in Washington state is threatening jobs as companies like Boeing consider leaving to Right to Work states. It’s not hard to see why.
Big union threats and intimidation are politics as usual in the Evergreen State but this time a union boss may have gone too far.
Demanding action on a “privacy bill,” that gags employers from discussing forced unionism at meetings, a union boss linked campaign contributions to actions on the bill setting off a criminal investigation into the matter. Of course, that’s a real yawner as union PAC and treasurers link contributions to legislative actions all the time. But in this instance they were brazen enough to put it in writing.
For years, states with Right to Work protections for employees have been driving U.S. factory job growth.
Big Labor bosses will eagerly advance agendas that lower real incomes and destroy jobs if they simultaneously fatten union coffers. But neither rank-and-file union members nor union-free workers share that perspective!
Ignoring ample evidence of forced unionism’s unfairness and its damaging impact on jobs and incomes, Big Labor Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Right to Work destruction in 2023.