Union leaders predict Indiana’s new anti-union law will ‘boomerang’

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5120

6 February 2012

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana became the nation’s 23rd “Right to Work” state on Feb. 1. Union leaders blasted the legislation, and predicted it’ll boomerang at the ballot box this fall.

The law, jammed through the legislature on party-line votes, deprives unions of the right to mandate collection of dues, or even “fair share” fees in contracts with employers. The practical effect is to rob unions of money needed to represent workers.

Right-to-work laws have been a cause of the Radical Right for more than 60 years – as a way to destroy unions and reduce their ability to gain better livelihoods for workers. Minnesota is also a right-to-work target, with legislation proposed by Republican lawmakers this session.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka led the unionists in saying right to work will hurt Indiana workers – who will remember in November.

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