Non-Right to Work States

Non-Right to Work States require employees in a bargaining unit to pay labor union dues.  Smart companies will avoid unions if they can.  These States are less likely to add manufacturing jobs except where they supply heavily unionized customers and need to be located close to these customers in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania

Many of these States have high taxes and high cost of living like California, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut

Several have high debt and are losing population like California and Illinois.

Several are split evenly between Democrat and Republican and have attempted to become Right to Work States and will continue to do so like West Virginia and Missouri. Other conservative States include Kentucky,

Several are tightly entrenched in Democrat politics and unionization like California, Oregon, Washington, New York and New Jersey.

The 26 Non-Right to Work (Forced Unionism) states are: 

Alaska

California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington West Virginia

Non Right to Work States voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Hillary won narrow victories in Oregon, Nevada. Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,  Delaware, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Virginia,

Hillary won decisively in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington,

Hillary won completely in DC.

https://www.politico.com/mapdata-2016/2016-election/results/map/president/

Comments

Most Non Right to Work States are Blue States and voted Democrat in the 2016 Presidential Election. This includes States with high government employee populations where labor unions control the State Legislatures. But in the 2016 election, union members voted for Trump, who promised to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader