'Right-to-work' legislation may sound nice, but it's actually terrible for workers and has a deeply racist history (by paulconstant)
," Shane Larson, the legislative and political director of Communications Workers of America, argues that RTW laws should be called"right-to-work-for-less" or"right-to-mooch" laws.
Larson says RTW"was concocted by a bunch of Southern segregationist white supremacists as an effort to try to stop unions" in the 1930s and 1940s as"a way to keep workplaces from being integrated." The policy push"was bankrolled by corporations to really whip up this racist hysteria into campaigns to pass these 'right-to-work' laws in states all throughout the south.
"If you are a worker in a 'right-to-work' state," Larson explained,"not only do you make about $1,600 less a year than [workers in non-RTW states], you have less employer-provided health insurance, and significantly lower retirement plans or pension plans. It's a pure, clear benefit for corporations" at the expense of workers, he said.that could change all that.
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