These states are moving to limit public employees "right" to collective bargaining: Wisconsin, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana, New Hampshire, Kansas, Tennessee, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Washington, Alaska, and Arizona.
The greed of these public employee unions and the backlash against it may result in state after state passing right to work legislation which would cut the legs out from under the good unions that represent their membership fairly and do not make outrageous demands that cripple the economy. During the time the pipeline was being built in Alaska the Teamsters got so powerful and so grabby that other unions feared backlash from the state. It happened. A right to work law was passed and union workers lost many jobs. The work conditions for non-union workers is not as good and the pay certainly is not as good. If right to work legislation is passed throughout the country the quality of life for many people will suffer and the quality of the work done will suffer. One of the important functions of good labor unions is maintaining excellence in the workforce.