Get it right: Senate considers Right-to-Work
New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper editorial

The New Hampshire Union Leader, the largest newspaper in the state, editorialized in favor of the State Senate passing Right to Work today:

Democrats at the New Hampshire State House are trying a novel approach in trying to convince their Republican colleagues to block the Right-to-Work bill from heading to Gov. Chris Sununu’s desk. They argue that it would interfere with the free market.

Now, our liberal friends might not otherwise mind interfering with the private sector, but let’s give them credit for at least trying to persuade conservatives using conservative arguments.

They speak laissez-faire like it’s a second language.

Right-to-Work prevents unions from charging non-members an “agency fee” for the union’s services. It is already against the law to require union membership as a condition of employment, so passing Right-to- Work really has nothing to do with the employer-employee relationship.

It is about whether a labor organization can take money from workers who refuse to join.

Labor unions, like businesses, should have to compete for workers. In the private sector, union membership has declined from 20 percent of the workforce in 1983 to just 11 percent 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But New Hampshire’s public sector is still dominated by unions that get to charge state and local workers, whether or not they think the union is working for them.

The New Hampshire Senate should approve the Right-to-Work bill today. Granite State workers can make decisions for themselves.

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Get it right: Senate considers Right-to-Work