Commentary: Right to Work = Rob the Workers

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?article_1_279

By Senator John Marty
25 March 2012

ST. PAUL - The so-called "Right to Work" (RTW) constitutional amendment pushed by Republicans is anything but a right to work.

In 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King described the purpose of "Right to Work" laws as efforts "to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone.Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights." Dr. King called "Right to Work," a "false slogan" and a "fraud."

King recognized that unions play a critical role; they have provided better public health and safety standards and have worked to make the economy work for everyone.


Senator John Marty

In fact, on the day when Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, he was in Memphis supporting a sanitation workers' strike. To him, unions were essential to the rights and dignity of working people.

Fifty years later, we are still fighting the same battle, this time with a Republican proposal to amend the Minnesota Constitution with the so-called "Right to Work." Some things haven't changed, and RTW is as fundamentally dishonest today as it was then. Anyone who is struggling to find a job would love to have a right to work. But this constitutional amendment has nothing to do with that.

FULL story at link.

[The Wielding Truth]

1. So, these corporatists have been working on this since 1961.

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2. John Marty is one of the best senators in the Minnesota legislature n/t

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3. kick.

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4. In any RTW state you will have Wal-Mart a big player in politics of that state, in back ground