{"id":78146,"date":"2023-09-03T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/right-to-work-leader-says-this-labor-day-you-should-celebrate-your-right-not-to-join-a-union-78146"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:30:34","slug":"right-to-work-leader-says-this-labor-day-you-should-celebrate-your-right-not-to-join-a-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/right-to-work-leader-says-this-labor-day-you-should-celebrate-your-right-not-to-join-a-union-78146","title":{"rendered":"Right-to-work leader says this Labor Day, you should celebrate your right NOT to join a union"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As Americans celebrate Labor Day this weekend, workers should be thinking about the right to work without being forced into a union, a leader of the right-to-work movement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Labor Day union officials try to say that Labor Day is all about union workers and big labor,&#8221; National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix told Fox News. &#8220;That&#8217;s not true. Labor Day is a day to celebrate the American workforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mix believes support for the right-to-work, or the ability to opt out of a union, is on the rise despite a recent setback in Michigan. He said it&#8217;s more appropriate to celebrate workers\u2019 freedoms than big unions this Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/digital-originals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>WATCH MORE FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HERE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently, 27 states and Guam have active <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/lifestyle\/right-to-work-states-what-that-means-for-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right-to-work laws<\/a> that allow workers to opt out of union membership. The cohort will lose a member in March 2024 when Michigan\u2019s right-to-work repeal takes effect. In the remaining states, laws vary, but most can force workers to pay dues as a condition of employment in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents to right-to-work argue that those laws weaken unions and hinder benefits for workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that every worker must have the right to join a union and that right should be protected, but we also believe that no worker should be compelled as a condition of employment to pay union dues or fees just to get or keep a job,&#8221; Mix said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/firsthand-right-to-work-matters-repeal-michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I KNOW FIRSTHAND HOW MUCH RIGHT TO WORK MATTERS. DON&#8217;T REPEAL IT, MICHIGAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;re gaining momentum,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I think the idea of forcing workers to pay union dues or fees in order to work is an antiquated antique of the 1930s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The history of right-to-work begins in 1947 with the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allowed states to enact right-to-work legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/labor-day-quiz-how-well-know-facts-about-national-holiday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LABOR DAY QUIZ! HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW FACTS ABOUT THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This law was in response to a 1935 law that passed under the Roosevelt administration that gave union officials dramatic powers over individual workers,&#8221; Mix said. &#8220;They tried to balance that power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They didn&#8217;t really balance it at all, but what they did do is they allowed states to get out from under the federal jurisdiction of forced unionism,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>The United States had a union workforce of about 14.3 million dedicated wage and salary earners in 2022, constituting approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/us-union-membership-rate-2022-hit-record-low-despite-campaigns-high-profile-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1% of the total labor force,<\/a> according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This marks a decline from 2000, when union membership was over 16.3 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/american-airlines-flight-attendants-overwhelmingly-vote-authorize-strike-amid-contract-negotiations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANTS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTE TO AUTHORIZE STRIKE AMID CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four states have adopted right-to-work laws over the past 11 years: Indiana in 2012, Wisconsin in 2015, West Virginia in 2016 and Kentucky in 2017. Tennessee and Alabama also amended their constitutions in 2022 and 2016, respectively, to include right-to-work even though they already had laws on the books.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/398303\/approval-labor-unions-highest-point-1965.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>2022 Gallup poll<\/u><\/a> found that 58% of non-union workers said they are &#8220;not interested at all&#8221; in joining a union, while 11% said they are &#8220;extremely interested.&#8221; It also showed that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions \u2014 the highest since 1965.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Labor Day is a day to remind individual employees and employees across the nation that no organization should be able to force them to join them,&#8221; Mix said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/right-work-leader-says-labor-day-celebrate-right-join-union\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/right-work-leader-says-labor-day-celebrate-right-join-union <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Americans celebrate Labor Day this weekend, workers should be thinking about the right to work without being forced into a union, a leader of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-78146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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