RICHMOND, Va. (7News) — Democratic State Senator Jennifer Carroll Foy introduced a bill that would repeal Virginia’s right-to-work law.
In an interview with 7News, Caroll Foy told Reporter Nick Minock that repealing Virginia’s right-to-work law would strengthen workers’ collective bargaining position, which she argues would help increase wages and improve benefits for workers.
“Right now we have some CEOs making 350 times the average worker,” said Caroll Foy. “We have to ensure that we improve workers’ bargaining position, and the best way to do that is by ensuring that we can increase union membership. As Dr Martin Luther King Jr said, right to work is a misnomer. It has nothing to do with rights or work. It's a great way to suppress people organizing to negotiate for better pay, safer working conditions, and to be able to retire with dignity.”
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Caroll Foy added, “The statistics are clear that in states where there are right-to-work laws, so-called right-to-work laws, that wages are suppressed and lower. We understand that right-to-work laws are a vestige of Jim Crow, because many people wanted to stop Black workers from being able to join a union, because that was the fastest, most efficient way to the middle class. We're done with that. We're ready to move forward and move forward with affordability and improve the lives of all workers.”
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