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Here is the scenario. A small union shop has 8 union employees and the new owner wants to be aggressive and grow the business. He works 60 hours/week calling on customers and expanding his projects to where he adds another 16 union employees and is providing jobs, health care, paying pension funds and the state mandated benefit funds. Then business takes a turn down, he has to lay off the 16 union employees to stay afloat. According to the contract, they can stay on his small 8 union employee health care and he pays unemployment benefits. He protests with the State of Indiana and shows the labor board where these former employees are working other non-union jobs but are still on his payroll. (The union benefits package was obviously better than the jobs they found.) Tough luck, your just a lowly risk taker and job creator, pay up. After many months of this the 8 union employees can not support the benefits and he is forced to file bankruptcy, both company and later personal. I have ZERO sympathy for Win Moses and the sick mentality of unions. Those that are not Right to Work advocates have never had to work with a union or enjoy the fruits of the unions pension fund (and the rank and files retirement future) in the form of campaign contributions.
stop the unions ability to control the honest workers efforts to make a living... the unions efforts are to limit a worker to follow the "party line" and ends up destroying initiative... of course having a management that is enlightened and recognizes an employees value is greatly needed.,,
Unions can break a company by using funds derived from members who don't want to follow the leader. Unless workers have a choice not to pay the dues, either they contribute to a cause they do not wish to support or lose their job. This is a CAPITALIST society or a MONARCHY, which will it be?
Each individual should have a FREE choice, in whether or not they WANT to join any Union, or work free without malice or intimidation at their place of employment.
union dues don't bring jobs to a state .companies bring jobs to a state.
The most common wage requirement for public contracts should also be struck down. Unions might get more sympathy if they weren't so corrupt.
We definitely need the right to have any business operate (thereby giving jobs to our citizens) and not have the union involved!
Let's get the economy growing and get the union special interest groups under control.
Unions only consist of 12% of American workers. Why should the vast majority be subjected to unions that drive companies out of business. The Japanese automakers in this country don't allow unions and the workers are well taken care of. Also unions are corrupt and use the dues to support Democrats. Why should non-Democrats have to put up with that. It also happens in the teachers unions. This state used to be right-to-work until the Democrats beholding to the unions for campaign money changed it. Now is the time to change it back and get more jobs into Indiana. If GMC was non-union the pandering Democrats would not have bailed them out. Now the public are big time losers with that deal.
IN needs to get with the times.
IN needs to bring more jobs into the state. The unions need to understand they cannot coerce workers to do thier bidding. The union leaders have become as rich & arrogant as the fat cats they work for. China & others are waiting in the wings!
no one should be forced to pay union dues in order to have ajob
Why are people forced to join unions as a condition of employment? I thought we were a country of freedoms.
Greedy unions want to hang on to their privileges while guys like me look for a job. RTW gives guys like me a chance too
The Unions are creating such a fuss because they are going to lose money through dues. I don't think they really care about the workers just keep those dues rolling in.
The unions are killing many of our freedoms!
I'm against unions! I believe they were good when they started, but the rank and file don't see that the 'elites' are 'raping' them!
Unions are the strong arm of the Democratic Party, political whores who support ideas that I don't.
I think that worker have a right to choose.
Having worked in a union company it was amazing to me the percentage of unionized employees that were pro the company and anti the union. Have you ever had a greviance filed against you for shipping a part to a customer at 7PM at night only because they had a line down and you knew the FedEx plane had not left yet? And the union "representatives", they looked the Sopranos--too funny. Right to Work is a freedom of choice. Just try getting another vote of confidence for the union once they are in. They are protected by the NLRB and the former union members in the state department of labor. The sooner the better.
When I worked construction I was kicked off jobs because I was non-union. Everyone said my work was great and my performance fantastic. Everyone should be allowed to make a living.
People should have a say whether they want to belong to a union or not.
Our freedoms are diminishing, if this fails to pass this will be one more governmental thumb of control.
labor unions once prevented child labor abuses and created safe working enviroments for workers that is no longer true.now greed and protecting non productive workers is rampent.forcing companies to hire part time workers that work 40+ hours a week with no benefits at all at half the wages of union workers that must do the exact job plus some.Or force part time employees to pay union dues with no benefits at all.
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I am a Democrat and more intelligenter than Republicans who dont like my union special interest group. This is all Bush's fault and Rush Limbaugh and WOWO and Fox (FauX) news. If I ever get a job I want it to be unions so I dont have to work a lot and get high pay and benefits
NO, NO, NO! If a large middle class is ever to exist in the United States again, we will need an empowered labor movement to help secure economic gains that benefit working people. I applaud the Democrats in the state legislature for their tenacity in resisting this latest right-wing economic Darwinist assault on the rights and dignity of the American worker.
I don't support this Communist legislation by the Communist/GOP party.
It sure is funny how the Corporate Clowns that are lobbying for and bankrolling the commerical/propaganda that Ditch Mitch appears in praising RTW are hiding behind anonymity and don't want their names revealed. If this was such a good deal for Indiana workers, why not come out say who you are?
For what reason ? Why didn`t "Tricky Mitch" come out for this piece of crap legislation sooner ? That`s right, he thought he had a snowball`s chance at becoming our 45th president. Or perhaps he needed another worthless piece of legislation to go in his trophy case along with the pawning off of the Indiana Toll Road, the privatization of the State welfare system, or the laughable Daylight Saving Time debacle ~it will create jobs, reduce crime, save everybody money, etc.
Now, business needs yet another tool to further dismantle our working middle class ? Where is Daniels on illegal immigration (something he should be addressing ) and the displacement of American workers who are displaced by low life employers who hire illegals ? Never heard a word out of him. Thank God for term limits.
We help the corporations anough. lets help the rest of us for a change
It's clearly a tactic to keep individuals from banding together as the only balance to corporate capital. Republicans are working from the same memo in an orchestrated attempt to benefit the rich. Once this balance is gone, it will be gone for good.
Right to work is the wrong name to give to this bill it should be how to kill unions. The bill does not give anyone the right to work but it does take away your represetation in the work place and will result in lower paying jobs with on benefits for future workers in settings closer to those of china than those of living wage states in the U. S. but Daniels will make a profit off of this some how the same as he did with IBM and the Toll Road. I pity the future citizens of Indiana.
The misnamed "Right-to-Work" legislation came into being following WWII, mostly in the South. What followed was 70 years of low-wage, working-poor misery. This is simply a way for our Republican friends to limit the effect of regular folks, so rich, corporate interests can get their way.
Right to Work was never a campaign issue. All workers benefit from the collective bargaining of unions. Right to Work states have lower wages (average $5,333 lower)than those without RTW. Republicans cannot meet the challenge of naming ANY business that has given the reason for not locating in Indiana that they want their employees to be able to opt out of a union! Why are large sums of money from SECRET donors being spent to advocate for Right to Work? The SECRET donors want to be able to lower workers rights and pay, effectively eliminating the middle class.
All organizations require dues to support their cause in turn you have a voice and receive the benefits of being a member. These dues support the Chamber of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau. Unions are the same, but Freeloaders are allowed under Right to Work. Thus breaking the union. This is the main purpose of this law.
All unions want is MONEY, MONEY, AND MORE MONEY. I worked for a company that had a union and we all lost our jobs when they downsized.
It's simple union-busting. Of course it attacts industry. They know they won't have to pay much. Indiana would become attractive in the same way that China is attractive. We'll build things for nothing.
Whether or not one likes the principle behind it, take a look at the outcomes of states that have enacted "right-to-work" legislation. There is nothing to envy there! It simply doesn't work.
A Union company setting up a business in Indiana, already knows the employee pays for their own union dues. The employer does not pay the dues. The employer is not paying any extra money for dues. A non union company setting up a business in Indiana, does not have to deal with any union dues anyway. In both cases the so called ‘right to work bill’ does not make the company more money. Therefore a legitimate company would have no fear or qualms about setting up a business in Indiana.
If you use the same thinking as the ‘right to work bill’, then the following scenarios should also be true. If I live in a district or move into a district or I am put into a district, because the borders were redrawn, and I do not like or agree with the representative of that district, then I should not have to pay any taxes that directly pay for that representatives salary. I should be able to get the benefits of being represented without paying for it. If I move into a neighborhood with an association, I should not have to pay any dues to live there and benefit from what ever the association can do for me.
If the workplace in question has voted in a union, then all workers should pay reasonable fees to be represented.
Look at comments on what happened in Germany when they did away with unions. Indiana will be farther behind in wages, jobs, employment and the list goes on. Why can't the leaders use common sense and save our people and state.
If people are gullible enough to believe the republican corporate puppets in government on this issue, then they deserve NO BENEFIT-LOW WAGE jobs. Which is what this RTW law is all about. Ron M, Larwill
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