Friday, January 26, 2007

Colorado's Labor Peace Act has made the state a strange place within the labor movement/anti-labor movement. Our newly Democratic Legislature and Governor may move our state closer to either a Right to Work state or a Right to Union state. But I think that it will not really change much at all. It would make it easier to require Union Membership, but the truth is that when a given company has reached the point where a Union is necessary (evil management), they will have no problem getting MORE than 75% of the employees wanting a union anyway.

Some are saying that repeal of the Labor Peace Act will be "unfriendly to business," but that is not true. The Right to Work states are the states that businesses do NOT want to move to (states like Oklahoma and Arizona as opposed to states like Missouri and California, for instance). The Right to Union States have higher quality of life, as well as MUCH higher income.

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