An opinion piece celebrating Florida’s “Right to Work” law appeared in the Sun Sentinel on Labor Day.
The timing must have struck Florida’s hardest working people as ironic. The author, president of the National Right to Work Committee, first praises American workers as the backbone of our economy. Absolutely right.
He transitions to praising the law that eliminates the practical means of that backbone protecting workers’ rights. Yes, workers are free to pay union dues if a union exists. But as the author knows, no freedom to pay dues exists if no union can survive.
Labor Day is meant to celebrate workers, not to celebrate a law that effectively prevents workers from uniting for fair treatment. Trade unionists pushed for creation of the Labor Day holiday. It is about labor — not against it.
— David Blasco, Fort Lauderdale
“Floridians should celebrate Florida’s Right to Work law” by Mark Mix (Another Viewpoint, Sept. 7), is a thumb in the eye of working Floridians.
Right-to-work laws force unions to represent nonpaying workers who receive the same benefits as paying workers, creating a subsidy for holdouts. If companies need Florida’s lawful subsidies, paid by workers against their unions, then Florida workers are poorly served by their state.
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