The Kentucky state Senate on Saturday approved legislation that would make it the 27th right-to-work state in the country by ending coercive unionism.
The Senate voted 25-12 to approve the legislation that bans union tactics that make membership a condition of employment. The bill already passed the state House of Representatives earlier this week.
Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has said signing a right-to-work bill is one of his “top priorities.”
The law gives workers the ability to opt out of joining a union, and the fees that go along with it, in factories and businesses that have a union presence without the fear of job loss.
These states should worry more about breaking up the government unions.
It’s the government unions that are driving states to ever higher spending (& taxing) to the point of bankruptcy.
Compulsory unionism is anathematic to the very idea of Liberty.
If unions added (real) value to the workplace, they would be overrun with applicants. But, in fact, unions are anachronistic structures to enrich the “bosses” at the expense of the “workers” and the “capitalists.” They have already achieved the 40 hr. workweek (down to 30, thanks to Obola), safety in the workplace, nationalization of their thefts of pensions, and guarantee that they are the laziest, most worthless, pieces of shit malingerers ever to be employed.
The unions have become parasites – and they are proud of that fact.
They no longer even pretend to be more productive, safer, smarter, better trained, or better pensioned workers – only better politically connected to socialism.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
izlamo delenda est …
In college I was looking for a job just to get by. I wanted to put in an application for a small shop and informed it was a closed union shop. “So I have to pay $110 just to work here,” I asked? This was 40 years ago. I walked out and have been against unions ever since. One boss was all I could handle at a time.
First job non union, became mandatory a year later. We were already making more than union in wages and benefits. Company scaled back benefits to make up the difference. Union sent in horrible slugs, morale plummeted. Company only lasted a few more years. Went to Carpenter’s union, applied for apprenticeship. Scored highest and finished tests first. Turned down because union decided to give the apprenticeships to guys who needed a job to get out of prison. Joined AF.
My friend works in a union hospital. She’s not union, she’s management.
One worker (an employee of my friend’s) physically attacked another and was fired on the spot. Happened outside the security office and on video surveillance.
Union made them hire her back.
I was pretty much put off unions by my first and only experience with one. In my late teens I needed a job between dropping out of one university and starting at another eight months later. I snagged a file clerk job at the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement fund. The job was OK, but my ultimate boss was W. A. “Tony” Boyle. He was later convicted of embezzling union funds and the murder of a rival for control of the UMWA, one Jock Yablonski, and Yablonski’s family. Boyle was sent up with a triple life sentence.
So that’s my union story. I have both a philosophical/moral objection and a personal objection. Mandatory union membership is an abomination.
Oh that’s gonna piss off the UAW union for the VW plant.
Hahahahaha!