Indiana House approves right-to-work bill

We need to pass a right to set the wages of all politicians and how many day off and the health care for them and their familys.

Why dont these states put it on the ballot and let the PEOPLE vote???

The "right to work" does not mean that you cannot join a union;
it just means that you cannot be FORCED to join a union
or pay money to the union if you don't want to.

I really don't understand what the problem is here. If people want to pay union dues, they can, no one is stopping them. Those people who don't want to join a union should not be forced to pay dues. I thought we had freedom of choice in this country!

Good. People can still join unions, they just are not forced to join unions.

what? no more having the government collect union dues? how can we buy politicians without a slush fund?

When you sign Free Trade Deals with half the world, you can't complete at Union scale, it's hard to complete at mimunim wage even, rework the free trade with fair trade, maybe we can have a chance, but when $34,000 a year is considered in the top1% in some countries, while we consider that to be at the poverty level for family of 3, how do you complete with that, our Middle Class jobs have been shipped overseas and we are seeing the impact of it, from when Clinton signed the first one --NAFTA in the early 90's, then PNTR with China, Bush signed CAFTA and Obama has signed deals with 4 countries, Panama, Columbia, South Korea and Brazil

How many foreign countries are building cars in America with Union labor? So far as I can tell they are all in right to work states?

Tragically Unions become like any other political entity. The leaders eventually end up working mostly for themselves!

It's is 2012 and our private businesses are competing GLOBALLY! I would love to make as much as I can but I don't do it at the expense of other tax payers who work just as hard as I do. Unions began when businesses were only competing locally and we didn't have OSHA or Labor Laws. Unions seems to protect bad employees even more then good employees. This raises business costs and reduces the chances our businesses can compete in other countries.
Try creating your own job or have the unions start creating jobs rather than chasing them overseas with their demands.
Why do public unions exist? because they have a huge number of employees than can strong arm the policitians to cave to their demands at the expense of other tax payers.

Excellent column in the NY Times (of all places) this week of why the labor union mentality of the 1950’s is an utterly failed concept in todays economy. After Steve Jobs bragged as recently as 10 years ago about Apple products being “American-made”, today nearly all Apple production is overseas.

Todays modern companies like Apple need workforces that are flexible, easy to ramp up and down, adjust quickly to new products….characteristics exactly zero of which fit the labor union model. When Apple made a last-minute change to the screen design of the latest iPhone, Chinese factory workers adapted, changed their scheduled work hours and OT on the fly, and had the new design rolling off the line as finished product in less than 3 days!

In an American unionized shop, it would have taken Apple MONTHS to make the changes. Labor unions stall any changes to the status quo, want to ‘negotiate’ any change to standard work processes, changes to line configurations…..sorry folks, that doesn’t work if you want to have cutting edge products that can require rapid adjustments.

It is very simple-look at the job creation in the right to work states. Businesses do not want to deal with the undo burden of union demands.

Texas has always been a "right to work" state and those that want to organize because their companies are oppressive have that right, those who work for good employers don't feel the need. What's wrong with choice here people? Since when here in America has the right to choose been considered a bad thing?

In 30 years as an Ironworker I was union for 7. All I ever saw the union do was protect lazy people from losing their jobs.
What is more fundamentally socialistic than a union? Everybody gets the same no matter what their performance level is. What then is the incentive for doing anything? Your get paid the same whether you work hard or not. This is what unions have become.
At one time in this country unions were an absolute necessity, men, women, and children were being subjected to deplorable working conditions for very little pay. (Watch the movie Matewan) But they have evolved into an entity no different than the companies were 100 years ago.
My company pays better, we have better benefits, and the men are treated very well.
We compete against union companies for every job we get, we never lose and we always make money because we have no dead weight. If a guy is not doing his share he is terminated unlike union companies that have to keep these people employed.

You are still free to join a union as in other Right to Work states. You just are no longer forced to join.

How did it come to be that workers were required to pay union dues?

16 hrs a day, no bennies (already here), no OT, child labor, no miminum wage , RIGHT TO WORK LAWS.......- THE re'PUKE'lickins dream and a "vision for YOU !!!!"

roflmao - What a bunch of freekink morons.......Wait till "Depression II" really starts then you will KNOW WHAY UNIONS WERE INVENTED !!!!

This will suck a lot of jobs out of Chicago.

I think that if you want to be in a union and pay dues that is your right and you should be protected for your choice.But if you choose not to be in a union that also is your right and you should'nt have to pay union dues.