Michigan right to work legislation passed, but is it legal?

[PoliticalNick]

Maybe we shouldn't ask if the 'right to work laws' are legal but are they moral.............?




Let's begin by getting something straight about Michigan's new anti-union law: It isn't properly described as "right to work" legislation. That phrase is, of course, widely used Republican shorthand for "right to work without being obliged to pay dues to the represented employees whose union bargained wages and benefits on your behalf.

Not only do I not want to pay them but I don't want them to negotiate for me either. I have done better on my own than any union could do and don't have to be limited to long-term contracts. I can ask for a raise whenever I like and if my employers doesn't come through I can shop my skills elsewhere.

 

[taxslave]

It is funny how your perception on this depends on your status. I don't have a problem with the concept of unions but have issues with many of their positions and antics. When I was contracting I paid over union wage and provided a reasonably decent benefits package and have also worked both union and non union jobs. A friend(we grew up in the same logging camp) is an organizer for the BCGEU . She thinks that the current situation is much like the end of the world only worse and has even gone to Michigan to join the protests. Presumably on the union member's dime (dollar if unionized).
For the most part we make more money by being non union simply because we can work all the hrs we want at st. time while unions demand double time foe anything over 8 hrs and as a result they get very little overtime.