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Right to work or right to stifle a free economy?
May 18, 2011
If you had a choice to open a business with workers who are known to strike and cost you billions of dollars, or open a business in an area where you can hire more people to be part of a stable workforce that doesn’t hinder production, which would you choose? According to a complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board, it doesn’t matter what you want. If you choose to open a business in a right-to work state, the NLRB says you are “engaging in unfair labor practices.”
That’s not a hypothetical question. That’s happening right now. Boeing wants to build a new production plant in South Carolina, but the union workers in Washington have filed a complaint, and Boeing may be forced to move their proposed plant to a different state. How is that freedom?
