Right-to-work laws are supported by business as a way to increase its profits by suppressing wages and benefits for its employees. Employees in non-right-to-work states earn, on average, $1,500 more a year than their counterparts in right-to-work states. And those same people enjoy greater benefits, especially health insurance and pension provisions.
Right-to-work laws are also designed to weaken unions by making them support the nonmember employees. So, they get the benefits of membership without being a member. This scuttles the union and prevents it from supporting the employees due to lack of funds. Bottom line is that right-to-work laws support business at the expense of the worker. They are a bad deal for American workers.
Joe Maurer
Vancouver
