Worker Advocate Launches Legal Task Force to Protect Indiana Right to Work Freedom
Law prevents union officials from extracting union dues from workers as a condition of employment
Washington, DC (February 2, 2012) – The National Right to Work Foundation announced today that it is launching a legal task force aimed at protecting Indiana’s newly-enacted Right to Work law.
Union officials publicly floated the idea of challenging the law in Indiana's courts before the law was even passed by the Indiana state senate.
Indiana is the nation's 23rd Right to Work state after the state senate passed the bill and Governor Mitch Daniels signed the bill into law on Wednesday.
Foundation attorneys have successfully defended state Right to Work laws in the past, including Oklahoma's. The task force has already examined reported union lines of attack and determined that Indiana’s Right to Work law is on sound legal ground.
"Union bosses want to undo what thousands of Hoosier citizens have worked hard for over the past decade," said Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation. "Because union partisans cannot win the hearts and minds of Indiana's workers and voters, they seek to have the courts strike down Indiana’s popular Right to Work law for them."
Read the entire press release here.
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Indiana RTW law
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels sounds pretty good to me – better than Massachusetts’ RINO Romney. He would’ve been a far better governor to run for POTUS. I was just reading of some of his accomplishments, which are far better than Romneycare!! Also, Gov. Daniels signed a right-to-work law in Indiana. Of course it’s a good idea to have RTW laws. I recently had a job here in Queens, NY. We were forced to pay initiation fees and dues out of very low (probably collusive sweetheart contract) wages. So many otherwise good workers seem to think that just because you join a union and pay dues that you have a genie in a bottle to give you a Utopian workplace. LOL!! If that were the case, wouldn’t everyone want to join a union?? Why are so many workers voting against unions?? And BTW, instead of criticizing Gov. Daniels, why won’t the OWS protestors protest against the 1% vs. 99% in unions?? That is – the 99% (workers) who are forced to pay dues and initiation fees out of low wages, while (the 1%) union officials collect multiple salaries and drive around in silver Cadillacs. ….. We need more people like Gov. Mitch Daniels. Keep up the good work Governor Daniels!!
Fun Facts
1. Tennessee, had the highest % of manufacturing jobs lost over the past decade.
2. Non-RTW states had higher % of workers w/ employer-based health insurance than did RTW in 2010.
3. Non-RTW states had a lower % of their population living at or below the poverty level than did RTW states in 2010.
Just a few fun facts found in the study conducted under the Department of Econonmics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. 3rd party opinion.
No one can force you to join
No one can force you to join a union. Its already a law. If you look at the states that are right to work states you will see their wages are lower then non right to work states. All RTW does is lower wages and bring us back to why unions were created in the first place. Get rid of unions and working conditions become worse. Why, because no one is there to regulate them. The empolyer is going to pay their empolyee as little as possible just so he can make more. Capitialism doesn't work when greed comes into play. As far as mitch daniels goes he is a liar. He said he would fight for teachers and now he has done a really good job of ruining their jobs and their pathetic excuse for pay. Now with RTW, he is working on ruining everyone else.
Neither can beat Obama
O yea I drive a ford ranger, and there are tons of union workers who make more than me. You can make more in the field than you can in a union office, happens every day and year. LOL. You were forced to pay a initiation fee to process your paperwork, or do you expect everything is free. Someone has to oversea pensions, healthcare funds, apprenticeships which comes at a cost. Of course I've seen enough movies about Queens to realize your education level.