'Union Yes' Chant Breaks Out During DNC
By Mark Mix
President, National Right to Work Committee
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Here's a simple proposition most Americans can, and polls show do, support: Every worker should have the choice to join and pay dues to a union, and they should also be free to refrain from doing so if they choose.
This proposition seems like common sense, but unfortunately it isn't reflected in how the law currently works in America. Instead, our labor laws are built on compulsion and force against the very workers they purport to protect.
If a workplace becomes unionized, all employees, including those who voted against, didn't ask for, or never wanted a union, will be forced to abide by the contract union officials negotiate with their employer, and if they live in one of the 24 states that lacks a Right to Work law, they can be forced to pay dues to that union or lose their jobs.
To fix this, we should give workers more discretion over who represents them in the workplace and who gets their money. Right to Work laws seek to do this by making union dues voluntary.
Yet union bosses demand labor policies that diminish workers' autonomy, so that they can more easily be corralled into union ranks.
Kamala Harris, endorsed in her bid for president by the top bosses of nearly every major labor union, supports an extreme version of this pro-union boss, anti-worker agenda.
First, Harris and her union-boss backers want to repeal existing worker protections. The vice president has...
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