Think Progress - In a recent interview with Radio Iowa, Walker said he would champion a federal version of the controversial ‘right-to-work’ law he signed earlier this year.
...With Walker’s blessing, Wisconsin became the 25th state to pass a so-called ‘right-to-work,’ which bans workplaces that have voted to unionize from collecting mandatory dues to support their collective bargaining efforts. Since then, the state’s union membership has been decimated. Two-thirds of the state’s members of American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees have dropped out, causing membership to plummet from 63,000 to less than 20,000.
Governor Walker’s pledge to bring this policy to the “other half of America” would exacerbate the existing decline in union membership that began in the late 1960s and sped up in the 1980s, and would hit hardest the country’s few remaining labor strongholds: Kentucky, New York, California, Alaska and West Virginia. With the sharp falling off of union membership comes increasing economic inequality and a drop in middle class incomes. Several studies have also found that ‘right-to-work’ laws result in lower wages and a lower likelihood of health care and pensions for all workers, both union and non-union.
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History is clear, no unions means no first world republic, the only chance a republic has to be first world is with a balance of political economy.
Without unions and social movements there is no chance for a republic to have a balance of political economy.
It is a fairly simple dynamic, third world wage earners are third world consumers and tax payers. A third world republic is one of never ending chaos, wars, civil wars, strife never ending...
A population of vast amounts of poor means they don't consume much or pay much in taxes-if any. The rich pay little to nothing in taxes in fact the poor and rich usually suck from the government and middle class. A republic with few middle class is doomed to never ending third world chaos.
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