My anecdote doesn’t really mean much in the grand scheme being my own personal experience, but I was really grateful when Indiana passed this law. I was at Kroger at the time and they forced us into a union that was run by store management and did not side with employees on any given subject. The fees were taking a pretty good amount of my already miniscule paychecks. I’d rather see a law that prohibits this abusive use of unions by companies more than anything.
I assume downvotes are from people who think I’m lying, but I would love to hear from those downvoting what exactly their problem with this comment is? It was a store in Indiana, I’m not making anything up, and I’m not saying unions are all bad, I’m saying they shouldn’t be allowed to be another strong arm run by the company.
It wasn’t the company running it, it was because they signed a labor agreement so at that point you had to join the union as per the contract. Kroger may have informed you but it wasn’t a “company union” which makes no sense.
Managers of Kroger were in the decision making positions of the union. Call that whatever the hell you like.
This looks like the union in question
Union that’s run by management… That’s not a union my guy, that’s an extortion outfit.
It’s not a union if it’s run by the company, that’s just management board but with an accent.
And any law what allows such a thing is anti-union by default, it’s just an internal misuse of the words meaning (plus it lowers the chances of an actual/additional union to form and on top of that it collects fees from the paychecks it itself gives to the workers for their work? lulwtf). I don’t know if any EU county where such thing is remotely allowed, however unions are (mostly) not enforced in the private sector, even in some cases where the law actually predicts one to be in place (so, company in such a situation is technically breaking the law but at the same time also can’t force or do anything towards starting a union since that would just make it their puppet & regulators would act immediately).
And economically NC is rated 17th and is a right to work and work at will state. It is growing insanely fast.
https://narronwenzel.com/the-right-to-work-in-an-at-will-state/
Right to work states (alphabetical):
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Lowest 10 state GDP per capita (2023):
51: Mississippi
50: West Virginia
49: Arkansas
48: Alabama
47: South Carolina
46: New Mexico
45: Idaho
44: Montana
43: Kentucky
42: Oklahoma
New Mexico and Montana are apparently not right to work but rank low in GDP per capita. The highest GDP per capita right to work state is North Dakota, ranked 6th in GDP per capita after California (5th) and before Connecticut (7th). Nebraska is the only other right to work state in the top 10 GDP per capita coming in at number 10.
Apologies for formatting, etc. I did this on mobile from my bed.
Michigan is the first state ever to repeal their “right to work” laws and it will end next March
this is a good run down, with one nit, probably caused by availability of data. Gdp per capita is not a good metric, because its a mean, so verp vulnerable to outliers, and because it represents generation of wealth regardless of if that money stays in the state.
North Dakota is an oil state.
It has a median household income of $68,000, meaning half of all households bring in less than that.
It has a mean income per capita of $37,343
11.5% of people in north dakota live in poverty
north dakota ranks 39th for poverty, which is better than middle.
This is an example of how different stats will have different results. When looking at poverty rates, out of the ten worst, only New Mexico is not a right-to-work state.
I was going to say gdp isn’t a good metric. GDP is economic output and not really relevant.
I’d look at cost of living and wages.
Thank you. I’m not a fan of GDP. If you and I started crotch kicking businesses and paid each other $1,000,000 dollars to kick each other in the crotch, we just contributed $2,000,000 to the GDP with nothing of value created. My testicles hurt and your $PARTS hurt.
This is great qualifying information and I think this shows that you can’t just take the back of a tee shirt at face value. Who knows what the wearer meant by “poorest states.”
The top ten piece of shit are all humans!
And landlocked states also don’t have oceanside resorts. Several of those states are also Republican.