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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans hope to make union holdout Kentucky a right-to-work state
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/03/is-kentucky-poised-to-be-newest-right-to-work-state/
Published November 03, 2014FoxNews.com
Nov. 3, 2014: Phinis Hundley, a labor organizer for Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes puts out a campaign sign in front of the United Auto Workers hall.
WASHINGTON As the hard-hitting contest between Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes hogs all the attention in Kentucky, another potential battle is brewing at the state legislative level that could change the labor landscape in Coal Country.
Kentucky is one of the last remaining pro-union holdouts in the South that does not have a so-called right-to-work law -- or law allowing workers not to pay union dues if they don't want to.
But if Republicans do well in the state legislative races in Kentucky, the Bluegrass State could become the new face of the right-to-work movement. The GOP holds a majority in the Kentucky Senate and needs to win only five House seats to secure a majority in that chamber. If that happens, Republicans are poised to push through a list of stalled conservative measures -- including a right to work bill, telephone deregulation and anti-abortion legislation.
Kentucky Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer has already gone on the record to say if both the state House and Senate go Republican, the first order of business will be getting a right-to-work bill passed.
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Republicans hope to make union holdout Kentucky a right-to-work state (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Nov 2014
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DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)1. If we save the House, they won't be able to do it.
Taking the Kentucky House from Democrats will be no easy task. It's been 93 years since the GOP did it, and we're not looking to let them do it anytime soon.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)2. Right to work. Yeah...Slave Labor is the new "In" thing. My other Country pays over 16 bucks.
Australia's Right to work means Making a living wage.
Not that I don't love America....just not everybody who lives here. (R)