Editorial rebuttal : Right-to-work would further state's (Michigan's) decline

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070524/OPINION01/705240310/1008

Editorial rebuttal

Right-to-work would further state's decline

While our nation and Michigan need a change to reverse the 35-year economic decline of the middle class, citizens in our state must reject the radical scheme of making Michigan a right-to-work state (Nolan Finley's April 8 column, "Make Michigan a right-to-work state").

Right-to-work states inject government intrusion into the collective bargaining process by prohibiting employers and worker representatives from voluntarily agreeing to union security provisions.

Federal law requires unions to represent non-members. (In Michigan, employees need not be members of a union, but must pay a service fee if the employment setting is organized.) Right-to-work laws permit workers to prosper from all the union's services without requiring employees to pay one cent for benefits received.

Would any company allow consumers to benefit from its product or service delivered without expecting a fair exchange of compensation?

We only need to look to North Carolina for evidence that right-to-work will not cure Michigan's manufacturing ills. From 1994-2005, North Carolina lost over one-quarter of a million factory jobs or about 31 percent of its manufacturing base, while Michigan lost about one in five factory jobs.

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