Right To Work Is A Right To A Free Ride

Posted: February 21, 2012

In a recent editorial it seems to me your main concern is of a partisan political nature (“Why Right To Work,” Feb. 1). It is not really the interests of the workers, but that a part of compulsory union fees is used to support Democratic candidates.

You also state that if workers did not have to pay union dues, they would save money by retaining one to 2 percent of their salaries. This argument does not hold, considering that union workers usually earn about 5 percent more than non-union blue-collar and service workers (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

As for your contention that right-to-work states have lower unemployment, the statistics of the Heritage Foundation, which you quote, are open to debate. Only those favoring the interests of shareholders and upper management over workers’ well being would support companies moving to other states because of cheaper labor.

Dany Perramond
Harrisonburg
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5.  RE: Right To Work Is A Right To A Free Ride
February 21, 2012 @ 4:44pm
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Doesn't matter if you're non union or not; gov't still gets nearly a third of my paycheck. 

County Mom
Broadway, VA
4.  RE: Right To Work Is A Right To A Free Ride
February 21, 2012 @ 2:22pm
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Bonjour,

Look at all the unions over there in that great socialist country, France. I'm sure the French are enjoying their free ride into economic disaster. Au Revoir!
Mr. Weld
Harrisonburg, VA
3.  RE: Right To Work Is A Right To A Free Ride
February 21, 2012 @ 7:31am
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it is not up to debate that unions drive up unemployment...that is a simple basic economic prinicple.    

and shareholders are all of us...including union members, and anyone with a retirement plan.  
struth
Harrisonburg, VA
2.  RE: Right To Work Is A Right To A Free Ride
February 21, 2012 @ 6:37am
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Folks who rail against Right to Work" laws are determined to have it both ways.  It may be true that union shops raise the pay rates of union members.  But what they do not consider is the fact that industry will move to areas where Right to Work laws are in force.  These union members are the most selfish members of the work force because they ultimately cause the loss of jobs to nonunion workers.  Unions are only interested in THEIR immediate benefits.  They want exclusive rights to work at the expense of the rest of our society.  So why don't the folks who are so determined to turn Virginia into a closed shop just move to a state where closed shops prevail?  Just pack up and go. 
Big Jake
Hinton, VA
1.  RE: Right To Work Is A Right To A Free Ride
February 21, 2012 @ 6:34am
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Welfare, and Food Stamps given to people who are to Lazy to work or or who download more mouthes to feed when they won't work to take care of the ones they already have is a Free Ride.
Remember 911
Harrisonburg, Va.
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