I wrote an article recently offering commentary on Wal-Mart holding meetings with managers and impending union “card check” laws, where union bosses could put undue influence onto employees into signing their indentures. My response to “card check” was for Indiana to finally pass a Right to Work law.

Now, I see on the Indiana Chamber blog the chairman of the State Chamber has written a piece offering his insight into why Indiana needs a Right to Work law. Here’s some of the highlights:

“In a 2002 study entitled “The Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Economic Development,” economist William T. Wilson of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy compared Michigan’s economic performance to right-to-work states. Wilson found that during the 30 years between 1970 and 2000, RTW states created jobs nearly twice as fast as did Michigan“

and

“There are practical reasons for Indiana to adopt a right-to-work law. First, Hoosiers agree with it. An overwhelming majority – 71 percent – favored or strongly favored right to work in a 2007 statewide survey”

“There is also the broader moral question of whether a Hoosier breadwinner should be forced to join and/or pay dues to a labor organization to get or keep a job.”

Paying dues which in turn contribute to anti-life and anti-freedom political candidates which the employee may not support.

Unions had their place in the early 20th Century, in the days of the GM “sit down strike” bringing increased employee compensation and awareness of safety into the industrial workplace. However that mindset has changed among employers, modern unions seem to operate as simply political contribution collectors from workers to contribute to anti-life socialist political candidates.

[H/T The Indiana Chamber Blog]