Right to Work Laws 923

In 1944 States began to adopt right to work laws that made Joining a union and paying union dues optional.  Mostly Southern States adopted these to attract manufacturing to their States. 

27 Right to Work States

Yr Adopted   States

1944 Arkansas, Florida

1946 Arizona, Nebraska, S Dakota

1947 Georgia, Iowa, N Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia

1948 N Dakota

1952 Nevada

1953 Alabama

1954 Mississippi, S Carolina

1955 Utah

1958 Kansas

1963 Wyoming

1976 Louisiana

1985 Idaho

2001 Oklahoma

2012 Michigan, Indiana

2015 Wisconsin

2016 W Virginia

2017 Kentucky

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Comments

Labor unions created a separation between employees and management. Its origin began with violence and intimidation.

Its’ beginnings were Marxist attacks on property rights.    including the United Mine Workers in 1890 and the Carnegie Steel strike in 1892.

Managers in the 1800s hired immigrants to build railroads, roads and canals. In the 1850s Owners were tasked with inventing their own technological advances and manufacturing processes on the fly and funding their own growth. They followed a military style separation of Bosses from Workers. They were caught blind-sighted to anti-monopoly laws and labor strikes. In the 1940s and 1950s manufacturing plants moved to Right to Work States. This failed model for industrial management began to change in the 1960s.  In the 1970s and 1980s plants avoided unionization.  In the 1990s plants began to move overseas.  Reshoring plants back to the US will likely occur in Right to Work States.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader