Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Ohio Governor John Kasich have led the efforts to destroy collective bargaining for public sector employees. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is intent on destroying private sector unions and to make Indiana a right-to-work (RTW) state -- many people leave off "for less" at the end of "right-to-work." It is too bad that an examination has not been done of the pathology of the residents of those three states to find out why they would elect such destructive individuals to the highest elective office in their respective states.
One of the best indicators that we live in an Orwellian world is that right-to-work is presented as a job-creation strategy. Oklahoma thought it was being a smarty-pants by adopting RTW. In the ten years after the adoption, manufacturing jobs in the state fell by one-third. Surveys of manufacturers confirm that RTW is not a significant draw, as in a 2010 survey, manufacturers ranked it sixteenth among factors affecting location decisions.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is very comfortable with political indoctrination when it comes to reinforcing a state's RTW status but it doesn't want any independent workers's organization exercising any political role in the workplace.
President Barack Obama is unlikely to be a formidable foe against work-to-work in a possible second term, as he did little to defend collective bargaining or promote the growth of organized labor in his first term.
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