Interesting Right to Work post at RightMichigan.com

http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2007/7/28/192810/172

Republican Yankee wrote this blog from personal experience.  Here are some excerpts of the more interesting points he made:

The first reason is philosophical.  Right-to-work legislation does not abolish unionized labor altogether.  Instead, it gives individuals a right to choose whether they would like to be a member of a union or not.  Why anybody would oppose the idea (at least from a philosophical point of view) of giving individuals more freedom to make decisions that will effect their lives is beyond me.  I for one would have excercised this right if I would have had it years back.

The second argument for a right-to-work state is purely economic.  Now again, the legislation doesn't abolish unions, but what it does do is give employers at the helm of struggling companies some flexibility.  If the company begins to tank and losses are piling up, the employer can cut wages and benefits of employees not belogning to the union and deal with the problem before it gets too out of control.

Third, states with right-to-work legislation are more economically viable.  I don't mean to say that passing right-to-work legislation in Michigan would be the magic bullet that makes everything better.  It wouldn't be.  Given the condition of our state, we probably need 15 magic bullets, but right-to-work legislation would be one of them and would be part of Michigan's economic solution, not part of Michigan's economic problem.  I have for sometime now tracked economic activity in each state since 2003.  Partially because this is when Granholm took office, but mostly because this is when most states began to recover from the dotcom bubble burst and the 9/11 recession.

See the full post at RightMichigan.com

http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2007/7/28/192810/172