I’m not in a RTW state and people in my state have been arguing about it as long as I can remember. Even after I read it, I still don’t understand what it means and how it could bring wages down.
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When a company’s workers unionize, they bargain collectively with the company they work for. Typically, one of the first things they get the company to agree to is not to employ workers who don’t work for the union. This makes the union very powerful in all the rest of the negotiations.
The “right to work” is the right of non-union workers to get a job at a union company – in other words, it makes that agreement illegal, so companies can always hire non-union people.
This weakens labor unions and makes companies stronger, which makes wages and benefits to workers go down.
Some people blame unions for making struggling companies less able to complete by lowering wages, and argue that it’s better for workers to have jobs that pay less money than for such companies to go out of business and lay everyone off.
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