FRANKFORT, Ky. (WAVE) - Gary Clemons, who won a special election to represent part of the south end in the Kentucky Senate, may be new to politics, but that hasn’t stopped him from filing pieces of legislation he thinks will make a difference.
Kentucky’s right-to-work law, passed in 2017, does not require everyone who works for a union shop to join or financially support a union, which some say weakens unions overall.
Clemons has filed Senate Bill 161, which would repeal that law.
“For me, to repeal right-to-work, you know, it’s my first bill, and the bill is at the core of what I believe in, the bill is at the core of why I ran,” said Clemons.
Before Clemons was a senator, he was a member of a union, and still serves as president of Louisville’s chapter of United Steelworkers Local.
For him, the right-to-work law hits home because he knows what contributing to a union can do.
“Those dues go to training our members, training union leaders to be educated well enough to sit down with a company, sit in on, you know, safety committees to make sure we’re working with a company that makes sure everybody’s safe,” said Clemons.
But the right-to-work law says people are allowed to work under contracts and benefits negotiated by unions without being members of the unions themselves. And, companies in Louisville have certainly felt the impacts.
“It’s a blow to organized labor,” said Avral Thompson, president of Teamsters Local 89. “We actually have to represent these people that...
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