Which states will be "right-to-work" in 2025?

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Probably one of the saddest maps that I've seen in a while. It's amazing how many people have been brainwashed into thinking that unions are a negative thing.

Unions have proven themselves to be a bad thing. Closed-shop laws were shady from the get-go, but the incompetence of unions has made closed-shop intolerable.

Most American unions aren't actually unions anyway. They are often just greedy capitalist organizations who hate the market-value of the labor they represent. They are falling apart for a reason. It isn't a conspiracy.

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Unions are the entire reason that we have the minimum wage, sick days, work holidays, no child labor, etc... Not to even mention that our economy was booming under high union participation.

Of course, you would sacrifice all these things for the sake of the "free market."

Our economy was booming when we had no international competition, and that was when union bargaining power was its highest. In the modern global economy, US unions have bargained themselves out of the labor market. First they were disgraced by the Japanese, then undermined by NAFTA, and finally killed by China, only to be saved by TARP and other bailout funding.

They've made fools of themselves, and we have no way of knowing precisely how many manufacturing jobs were unnecessarily lost. Furthermore, most the federal government now manages pension, legacy healthcare, unemployment, disability, etc for everyone. Unions are relatively pointless. Workers have a right to join them if they please, but closed-shop laws are just lingering evidence of our post-WWII hubris.

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The Master Class simply wants all but themselves to suffer for their unrestrained greed. More profit through longer hours for less under brutal working conditions -- that's the fascist way. Don't fool yourself: fascism will be no better in America because it is American than a tornado will be better than one that strikes outside of America because it is an American tornado.

It's adorable that your inflated sense of self-importance makes you believe that US plutocrats care enough to spend their short lives controlling us.

In general, Democrats are actually begging for more attention from the Master Class because they have no idea what's holding down the lower-middle class, but somehow they've convinced themselves that the Master Class can fix the problem. Master Class votes don't outnumber the masses of dumb Democratic voters who demand more poverty, and the Master Class isn't about to spend their political war chest to liberate people who enslave themselves for no reason.

When you see a bunch of Miserables throwing themselves in the gutter for sport, what are you supposed to do, besides ask them to stop?

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http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_27094248/minimum-wage-dissent-san-joses-law-resulted-lost?source=infinite

They done a good job against their own in San Jose.


Hours cut for workers, while progressives claimed that san jose was booming due to a higher minimum wage. While ignoring that San Jose's economic turnaround was due a revived tech sector. As it was in the past.


Besides, progressives now that their cheerleading for more illegal immigrants and giving amensty just to get future votes should convince the rest that they have NO moral authority to claim they are for the poor.

Arguing that the minimum wage does no harm is about as good as it gets for the min wage proponents. Same goes for Kruger's tepid support of Obamanomics and ACA. If they are really lucky, other policies might poison the environment sufficiently to allow min wage et al to improve commerce, but that's like hunting unicorns.

We have better ways of raising lower-middle class income and stimulating demand for unskilled laborers (which also increases wages). I understand that localities use minimum wage because their policy tools are limited, but the federal government is not in the same situation. The reason DC continues to live 50 years in the past is anyone's guess. Maybe it's because only the over-50 demographic is voting.

Americans are worried about heart disease and cancer, but DC has convinced most voters that we really need to be inoculating for small pox and polio. Some day people will come around.