What are the benefits of living in a "right-to work" state?

[ammi]

What are the faults? Any proof from reliable sources will be appreciated. Employment rates or worker compensation comparisons?

[siwili]

You can hold a job without having a portion of your paycheck confiscated by a union.

[ring]

You can't be forced to join a union as a condition of employment.

[teyrnon72]

The benefit is that you dont have to join a union if you dont want to. This is very convenient for those Americans who enjoy getting raped in the *** with no lubrication. Basically anyone who wants to save the $25 a month and forfeit the right to fair treatment, and arbitration to ensure reasonable discipline, and a competitive wage should move to a right to work state.

Far as proof goes, read any union contract book. Its all there. Membership premiums, and associated benefits.

[colten]

Well, the fact is, those represented by unions tend to get paid more than those doing the same job but not subject to a union.

Basically, pay and and benefits are the benefits of being under a union. But so was the benefit of being under a Mafia boss as well, only unions are legal.

The thing with a union is that it gets it's funds by forcing dues out of it's members, which in of itself is fair. I mean if you want to be part of a group, you should provide a nominal sum to support the efforts and goings on of that group. It's not a bad thing to require members to pay a nominal fee for the benefits that they receive.

But the problem arises when a political party, supported by these unions, unite to force the common worker to join a union. Now, of course this is America, nobody can be forced to join anything right? Well, Democrats get by that problem by requiring a person to join a union if they want to work in a certain job. This mandate then forces people to join unions, who often are the only union available, if they want to work in the job they know how to do, the job they have experience doing. Then of course, they are forced to pay the union dues or they are fined, sued, or simply barred from the union, which forces them to lose their job since in order to work, they must be part of a union.

Now it doesn't matter if that union supports things that the worker fundamentally or even religiously disagrees with because it's usually the only union they can join.

You see, Liberals like to claim that Conservatives hate collective bargaining rights, which is ridiculous. What Conservatives hate is people being forced to pay for campaigns of politicians they don't like and issues they disagree with. No Conservative would reject the right of people to peacefully assemble in order to discuss issues that matter to them and then collectively agree to take certain actions. In fact, by the First Amendment and the Constitution, who could actually stop such a group legally? Who? Nobody could. But that's not what unions are today. Today unions aren't much more than a business targeting PAC who pays Democrats to win elections and targets specific businesses to give their members more pay and benefits. Only they aren't as beneficial as they used to be, thus without forcing membership out of the workers, many of them would die off, and real collective bargaining rights would be practiced by people with real issues.

Right now since unions are considered the collective bargaining platform, people can't actually collectively bargain about issues that really matter. If the union doesn't think it matters, and they're pretty much controlled by whatever Democrats think at this point, then the issue will never be addressed. Which means that unions themselves are actually subverting collective bargaining rights. But Liberals never think things through, and Democrats along with Liberally biased medai do their best to keep the common Liberal from thinking things through by distracting them with nonsense things to blame like Republicans supposed war on collective bargaining rights and women's rights, and blah blah blah rights.

Just about everything Democrats and Liberals blame Republicans and Conservatives for, it's the Liberals that are actually doing it, and you can see that when you realize the reality of the situation such as unions controlling collective bargaining rights so exclusively that real issues can't be dealt with if the union, or rather Democrats don't agree that it's an issue to be dealt with.