Union leaders predict Indiana’s new anti-union law will ‘boomerang’
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5120
6 February 2012
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana became the nations 23rd Right to Work state on Feb. 1. Union leaders blasted the legislation, and predicted itll boomerang at the ballot box this fall.
The law, jammed through the legislature on party-line votes, deprives unions of the right to mandate collection of dues, or even fair share fees in contracts with employers. The practical effect is to rob unions of money needed to represent workers.
Right-to-work laws have been a cause of the Radical Right for more than 60 years as a way to destroy unions and reduce their ability to gain better livelihoods for workers. Minnesota is also a right-to-work target, with legislation proposed by Republican lawmakers this session.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka led the unionists in saying right to work will hurt Indiana workers who will remember in November.
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