Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Commentary: Tennessee Sets Example for Rest of the Country on Forced Unionization
On November 8, Tennesseans overwhelmingly voted to enshrine right-to-work in the state constitution. For 75 years, Tennessee law has protected its workers from being forced to join a union and pay dues as a condition of employment. It had been such a longstanding tradition that when I began urging state officials and business leaders to consider making right-to-work a constitutional protection, I was met with tremendous reluctance. Why do this now when this state law has been unchallenged for nearly a century?
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Why do it now? Because, as they say in the financial world, "Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results".
ReplyDeleteTennessee already was a Right to Work state.
DeleteWhen right to work becomes a part of the state constitution, nothing the feds do can affect it without creating a federal vs. states rights square-off. Also, the state legislature cannot erase that right with a simple majority vote and a stroke of the Governor’s pen.
DeleteThe spastic intensity and violence of the leftists will increase in direct proportion to their desperation.....
ReplyDeleteAt the core of Liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
ReplyDeleteP.J. O’Rourke
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ReplyDeleteParden me, but I have a real problem with communist run unions spending member's contributions on communist candidates and causes. Then when pensions go bankrupt the union officials wait til a communist is elected then ask the President to bail out the union pension funds.
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ReplyDelete"Tennessee has automotive operations in 87 of its 95 counties, including more than 900 auto suppliers, according to the Department of Economic & Community Development. Manufacturers here include Hankook Tire, Bridgestone Americas and Calsonic Kansei."
Don't forget GM, Nissan & VW have plants there too.
I'd say this is a nice fat hen the UAW would love to pluck. Smart to head that off.
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The reason these plants are in Tennessee instead of Michigan is that the unions drove them out of Michigan. If the UAW got their way in all states, all of our cars would be made in Mexico.
DeleteThere was a big mine that employeed around four hundred people in the area I was raised in. They became Union and got raises and incredible benefits. Within a few years the mine shut down. So many lost their asses. It was cheaper to ship the same ore from Europe than it was to mine it in the USA.
ReplyDeleteif only the republican party would work as hard on things like school choice or illegal immigration or gun rights as they do for big business
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