Short
Title: An Act prohibiting employers from making employment conditional on
certain labor organization status; providing for remedies and penalties; and
making related repeals.
Prime
Sponsor: Senator
FOLMER
Last
Action: Referred to LABOR
AND INDUSTRY, March 20, 2015 [Senate]
Memo:
Right to Work
MEMORANDUM
Posted: February 11, 2015 10:30 AM
From: Senator Mike
Folmer
To: All Senate
members
Subject: Right to Work
Shortly, I plan to reintroduce my Senate Bill 1073 to
make Pennsylvania a Right to Work state.
Previous cosponsors were Senators Folmer, Vance, White, Eichelberger,
Smucker, Alloway, Brubaker, and Waugh.
A Pennsylvania Right to Work law would simply restore the
right of individuals to decide for themselves whether or not to join or
financially support a union. The fact
is, if Pennsylvanians are to truly have freedom of association, the right to
refrain must also be protected.
Currently, this basic protection applies to most federal employees and
citizens in nearly half of all American states.
With Indiana and Michigan recently enacting state Right
to Work laws, 24 states (plus Guam) now have such laws: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska,
Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.
Not only are citizens in these states protected from
compulsory unionism but with Right to Work states consistently outperforming
non-right to Work states in job and compensation growth, they also enjoy
significant economic advantages that come with a state Right to Work law.
I hope Pennsylvania will soon become the 25th Right to
Work state.
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