You’ve Gotta Fight… For The Right… To Work?
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Iowa House Republican Leader, Christopher Rants, posted a memorandum from the Iowa Right to Work Coalition on his website, www.rants.us, Thursday outlining a very strong case as to why Iowa should continue to be a Right-To-Work state, without any negotiating fees or agency fees. I excerpted a chunk below.
* Unions voluntarily chose to represent non-members.
Unions fought for, and received, the authority to be the exclusive representation for a bargaining unit. They knew at that time that this would include some non-union members – yet they still advocated for this power. Now they are complaining that they are “forced” to represent non-union members, calling them “free-loaders” for receiving services and benefits that they never asked for in the first place.
Yet another example of organized labor, and the American left as a whole, trying to have it both ways and get away with it.
