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Today’s Wall Street Journal points out<\/a> that union officials are pouring upwards of a billion <\/i>dollars, much of it in compulsory dues, into the 2008 election cycle. The goal? A sea change of American labor law.\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t"This is an all-in bet for them in 2008," says Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee, a group that fights down in the trenches against coercive union power. "As market cycles go, they’re in their peak, we’re in our trough, and they’re looking for a clear two-year run" in an all-Democrat Washington.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThen there’s the crown jewel:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tTucked into the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act is a provision called 14(b), which allows for "right to work" states. Big Labor last took a run at deleting this section, and forcing more unionization, in the Johnson administration.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAside from abolishing employees’ free choice of whether or not to join or pay dues to a union, wiping the current 22 state Right to Work laws<\/a> off the map would deal a crushing blow to the American economy.\n<\/p>\n

\nAccording to a recent study<\/a> by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research<\/a>, forced unionism cost the American economy upwards of $436 billion<\/i> in GDP between 2000-2006 alone.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe yoke of compulsory unionism already takes a severe<\/a> toll<\/a> on<\/a> states without Right to Work laws, the last thing America needs is to expand its reach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\n \n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Today’s Wall Street Journal points out<\/a> that union officials are pouring upwards of a billion <\/i>dollars, much of it in compulsory dues, into the 2008 election cycle. The goal? A sea change of American labor law.\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\t"This is an all-in bet for them in 2008," says Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee, a group that fights down in the trenches against coercive union power. "As market cycles go, they’re in their peak, we’re in our trough, and they’re looking for a clear two-year run" in an all-Democrat Washington.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThen there’s the crown jewel:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\tTucked into the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act is a provision called 14(b), which allows for "right to work" states. Big Labor last took a run at deleting this section, and forcing more unionization, in the Johnson administration.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAside from abolishing employees’ free choice of whether or not to join or pay dues to a union, wiping the current 22 state Right to Work laws<\/a> off the map would deal a crushing blow to the American economy.\n<\/p>\n

\nAccording to a recent study<\/a> by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research<\/a>, forced unionism cost the American economy upwards of $436 billion<\/i> in GDP between 2000-2006 alone.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe yoke of compulsory unionism already takes a severe<\/a> toll<\/a> on<\/a> states without Right to Work laws, the last thing America needs is to expand its reach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nWSJ: Repeal of Right to Work Laws High on Union Officials' 2008 Agenda - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/wsj-repeal-of-right-to-work-laws-high-on-union-officials-2008-agenda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WSJ: Repeal of Right to Work Laws High on Union Officials' 2008 Agenda - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"  Today's Wall Street Journal points out that union officials are pouring upwards of a billion dollars, much of it in compulsory dues, into the 2008 election cycle. 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