{"id":767,"date":"2011-03-14T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:28:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:06:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:06:35","slug":"workers-rights-are-at-stake-in-labor-battles-nationwide-but-not-in-the-way-union-bosses-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/workers-rights-are-at-stake-in-labor-battles-nationwide-but-not-in-the-way-union-bosses-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers’ Rights Are At Stake in Labor Battles Nationwide, But Not in the Way Union Bosses Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nLast week, Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work, pointed out<\/a> in Investor’s Business Daily<\/i> that the real issue in the ongoing battles between Big Labor and reform-minded public officials in various states across the country is getting lost in the union bosses’ self-serving rhetoric.\n<\/p>\n

\nAs Mix notes<\/a>, given the media coverage of the battle in Wisconsin:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\tAmericans learning about organized labor’s battles in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and other states from TV, radio and newspaper reports may understandably be confused about what is at stake, especially if they have no personal experience with unions themselves. From afar, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that public employees’ right to join a union is at stake.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nOf course a worker’s right to join a union is not the issue at all. The real issue at stake is that Big Labor enjoys numerous government-granted special privileges<\/a> at the expense of workers’ individual rights:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\t…What reform-minded elected officials are seeking to curtail, and in
\n\tsome cases even abolish, is government union chiefs’ legal power to
\n\tforce public servants into a union as a condition of employment.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder the current labor laws of nearly half of the states, government union officials have been explicitly authorized to force all public employees in a workplace to pay union dues or be fired, as long as a majority of their fellow employees (among those expressing an opinion) support unionization.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSuch forced-unionism laws, which Big Labor is now fighting furiously to keep on the books in the face of increasingly intense public opposition, actually trample on, rather than protect, employees’ freedom to make personal decisions about unionism.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAnd that’s the point. So next time you hear union bosses like Richard Trumka<\/a> shouting about "protecting workers’ rights," it’s important to keep in mind that what he really means is "protecting union bosses’ special powers."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nAs Mix notes<\/a>, given the media coverage of the battle in Wisconsin:<\/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-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nWorkers' Rights Are At Stake in Labor Battles Nationwide, But Not in the Way Union Bosses Claim - 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\/blog\/workers-rights-are-at-stake-in-labor-battles-nationwide-but-not-in-the-way-union-bosses-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Workers' Rights Are At Stake in Labor Battles Nationwide, But Not in the Way Union Bosses Claim - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week, Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work, pointed out in Investor's Business Daily that the real issue in the ongoing battles between Big Labor and reform-minded public officials in various states across the country is getting lost in the union bosses' self-serving rhetoric. 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