The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113205 Message #2404288
Posted By: Bobert
03-Aug-08 - 12:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Good news for Wal-Mart organizers?
Subject: RE: BS: Good news for Wal-Mart organizers?
The odd thing about right-to-work (14b of the Taft Hartley Act) is that there is a direct correlation between the states that have enatced these statutes and low per capita income... In other words, where as "right-to-work" sounds perfectly upstanding and American and all that underneath it are high rates of poverty...
And I've seen it up close in my life... Virginia is a right-to-work state... When I was living in Richmond and finally burned out at age 39 from all the various human service positions I had done for 20 years I needed to make a living so...
...I got a job driving a truck... I made $6.75 and hour delivering big rolls of paper to various places in Virginia... At alot of the places I would go I would run into drivers from states without right-to-work laws who were making 2 to 3 times as much money doing exactly the same job!!!
That is how it works in right-to-work states... 14b is the gift that keeps on giving to corportae America...
Heck, I could still take you to places in Richmond where people are still trying to live on minimum wages...