Missouri workers have stopped the anti-union ‘Right To Work’ law there in its tracks. Passed by a Republican dominated legislature, the anti-worker law attacking union finances was set to take effect August 28th. But thanks to a ballot initiative petition drive, labor delivered enough signatures to block the law. The question will be on the state ballot in Missouri in 2018.

Mike Louis is President of the Missouri AFL-CIO.

Mike Louis: “We’ve done a long process of making sure people understand exactly what ‘Right To Work’ does, which is cut wages, reduce benefits, make more unsafe working conditions – for everyone, not just those covered under a collective bargaining agreement, but for everyone across the state.”

Louis says Missouri’s people oppose the anti=-union law Republicans call ‘Right To Work’.

Mike Louis: “The working people of Missouri fully understand the implications of what a bad law ‘Right To Work’ really is. We voted in down in ’78.

There was a threat to put it on the ballot by the legislature in again in 1986 and we had a governor stand on the front steps of the capitol in a rally in ’86 and tell us that if he had anything to do with it ‘Right To Work’ would never be on the ballot again because Missouri does not like ‘Right To Work’.”

 

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By Doug Cunningham