Only One Reason

There is only one reason for right to work legislation or limits on collective bargaining. It is to reduce the wages and benefits of all workers--union or not. No employer or politician fights for these measures so that they can raise workers wages or provide them with more benefits or to work for a fairer deal for their employees. It is all about a concentration of wealth and power.

When they remove provisions of contracts that have been negotiated with the workers it is to drive more money into the hands of the wealthy to remove the limits on their concentration of their wealth.

Regarding workers in the public sector: it is not about balancing a budget. The unions have agreed to economic concessions. Just before these take-aways from workers tax breaks for the wealthy added millions to budget shortfalls.

It is all about transferring wealth from those who create it to those who hoard it. It all adds up to increasing the gap between the tiny minority of the super rich and the vast majority of working people.

In the end this system is unworkable. It starves our economic engine of the fuel that it needs to run--wages.

Layoffs, decreased wages will only deepen the economic crisis.