Indiana state Senate passes right to work bill

If unions are so great for workers, why do workers have to be forced to join them?

So now all those hard working business agents how drive around all day acting important may have to find a real job. Unions have, and may still have there place but they too have abused their power and helped ruin American industry.

gee do people who work for unions have a brain or a mouth or do they believe us who dont work for unions work for peanuts?? Maybe in your states because the unions run them and want you to pay them to have a job..The right to work states where I live and am self employed i make a #$%$ good living..debt free,,and i have a brain and i know my right s as a worker and no one walks over me..no one..this is what your politicians for these unions and these union ceos who are getting wealthy of your dues tell you.,keep believing them..

The dirty little secret is less than 14% of American workers belong to a union. Let the workers decide weather to pay into the union if they want. It is called freedom of choice.

Illinois already has nearly $200 billion in debts and unfunded obligations. Every dollar squandered on debt service can't be spent on education, health care, public safety — all the services Illinois wants to provide.

Average Hourly wage for Auto Workers (Non-Unionized) in America at Honda / Toyota / Nissan = $17

Number of these Japanese Auto Makers that were bailed out = 0 (0%)

Average hourly wage for Auto Workers (Unionized) in America at Ford / Chrysler / GM = $34

Number of these American Auto Makers that were bailed out = 2 (66%)

Unions Suck the American Economy Dry.... The Truth Hurts !!

Right to Work Laws in all 50 States !!

I belonged to the Teamsters for 1964 to 1968 and the AFT from 1977 to 2007. In plain English I was a union member. Not by choice but by law. California is a "closed shop" state. Can you follow the reasoning that in a closed shop state I have no right to work in my chosen field but in a "right to work" state the union is opposed to my right to work.

Oh poor me. Without a union to represent me I am totally unable to obtain a decent job or to negotiate a reasonable wage. Help me union boss.

Our revenue growth is not enough to keep up with pensions and Medicaid. It creates a squeeze for everything else."

Illinois Budget Director David Vaught, Jan. 3, 2012

Union reps from up north tried repeatedly to unionize my husband's plant. They were told to get lost, because we have that RIGHT. The main reason, their plants are losing orders and new equipment to ours.
They can smell the unemployment checks coming, and wanted to put us in the same boat. Manufacturing is flying out of this country faster than a jet-plane, the world economy is circling the toilet, and we are happy that we have a paycheck.

The only reason that wages would go down is that the market determines that the wages are too high.

Good for you Indiana , way to go Gov. Daniels send the bought and paid for , tax payer money sucking democraps back to Illinois where they belong..Illinois is just about bankrupt anyway and is unable to even come close to pay for unfunded public worker pensions .The liberal dream is just that only a dream.

Union workers can keep more of their salary and probably their jobs.
It's the unions that are exploiting the workers now.

"This so-called right to work bill is not conferring any rights to a job on anybody..."

This statement shows the mind set of unions and their supporters. RIGHTS to a job? There is no "right" to have a job, no one is entitled to employment.

"Rights" are things that don't require the resources of another person to provide. Nothing is required of me in order for you to have freedom of speech, the freedom to practice any religion you choose, or keep a gun in your house. But, a "right" to a job requires someone to give you work regardless of whether they need, or can afford, the position.

"The manufacturing belt of the Midwest and mid-Atlantic states is now sometimes dubbed the rust belt because of the large number of plant closures."

What else, really, needs to be said?

At least the Indiana Senate got some brains finally. Now if only all other states would follow suit. It is illegal for any organization to force you to join. Especially if it is for a wage. Unions had their time, but they are now a huge virus on the American work force and free market. Especially so when state workers are allowed to unionize.

Good for Indiana! I shouldn't be FORCED to join anything I don't want to. Unions just trying to bully people into joining and if not, they just steal the money right out of the employee's paycheck. All people should have a choice whether they want to join the union or not!

face it, unions are run by crooks

well having a job and a plant to go to work at is a bit better than having all the companies take the jobs overseas isnt it..U union folks really dont understand,,do u..or do u prefer to be on unemployment or welfare??

They need to do this in Wisconsin next. If nothing else, bringing it up in the legislature will force Democratic senators to flee the state for a while, which can only be good for the State...