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Missouri Voters Overturn Right-To-Work

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This came to light a couple of days ago, and in Missouri yet! It shows how the times are definitely changing.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0b15abaa751fb

Labor groups won a landmark and lopsided victory Tuesday as Missourians voted by referendum to overturn the state’s new right-to-work law, an embarrassing rejection for the state’s Republican lawmakers.Proposition A asked voters whether or not they would like to enact the right-to-work statute that the state legislature passed and former Gov. Eric Greitens (R) signed early last year. The “no” votes defeated the “yes” by a 2-1 margin, with 937,241 against the proposition and 452,075 for, according to returns released Tuesday night by the secretary of state.
 
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Wow; 90 views and 1 response. I guess the anti union crowd around here is licking their wounds.
 
right to work is ****, as is fire at will and pretending that you're a "contractor." i don't care if it pisses someone off. that's my experience.
 
right to work is ****, as is fire at will and pretending that you're a "contractor." i don't care if it pisses someone off. that's my experience.

As things go on, I'm sure that right to work will be goin away. Union work is work that's covered by "job insurance"; it's the very same concept and people will pay $800 a month, month after month without blinking an eye. Unions dues are usually twice the hourly rate, and many companies have "dues check-off", so the payments are automatically deducted once a month. My son-in-law is a commercial electrician / foreman in Silicon Valley making (I think) $60. an hour he was making $56, do you think he misses $120 a month? Also. he's building a pension just like I did through the Teamsters.

That's the reality that the right just doesn't want to admit to: they not brave enough or they live in exceptionally anti union cities so rather than celebrate the benefits that they DO GET from active labor, they criticize and personalize people who support it and are thankful for what it's done for the US as long as it's been around.
 
As things go on, I'm sure that right to work will be goin away. Union work is work that's covered by "job insurance"; it's the very same concept and people will pay $800 a month, month after month without blinking an eye. Unions dues are usually twice the hourly rate, and many companies have "dues check-off", so the payments are automatically deducted once a month. My son-in-law is a commercial electrician / foreman in Silicon Valley making (I think) $60. an hour he was making $56, do you think he misses $120 a month? Also. he's building a pension just like I did through the Teamsters.

That's the reality that the right just doesn't want to admit to: they not brave enough or they live in exceptionally anti union cities so rather than celebrate the benefits that they DO GET from active labor, they criticize and personalize people who support it and are thankful for what it's done for the US as long as it's been around.


i doubt that right to work is going anywhere. where i live, many professionals even have to pretend to be contractors so a middle man can take part of our salaries. it's ridiculous. it's a red state, though, so that's the way the ball bounces.
 
i doubt that right to work is going anywhere. where i live, many professionals even have to pretend to be contractors so a middle man can take part of our salaries. it's ridiculous. it's a red state, though, so that's the way the ball bounces.

You can thank the IRS for that. It used to be much easier to get gigs that were 1099 or corp-to-corp. At least getting a W2 guarantees that you actually get paid for the hours worked.
 
Right-to-work is a free pass for corporate America to **** all over you.
 
This is really encouraging news. It's definitely exciting to see unions, and union supporters, coming out and changing things. Hopefully this trend continues and politicians all around have no option but to be pro-worker.
 
Stats show that union workers get better pay and benefits, far above the personal cost of union dues, than do non-union workers. In some ways, unions have almost worked their way out of being most useful because so much of what they have fought for has become law. Not a whole lot left to fight for in that regard. I haven’t seen data that shows low unemployment having a significant correlation to increasing wages. But, if unions begin rising-up again, that is where wage increases will come from and get a fair portion of those corporate tax breaks and repatriated cash.
 
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