Wisconsin Governor Scott WalkerWisconsin Governor Scott Walker has emboldened
conservatives, enabled businesses, and relieved taxpayers and families looking
to make ends meet as well as improve their economic situation. After winning
three statewide elections in four years, Walker has earned a clear mandate to
continue and expand his economic reforms. The next policy to implement,
workplace freedom or “right-to-work”, is a necessity.
Despite senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald and
Assemblyman Chris Kapenga’s support for this law, Governor Walker has remained
cautious. This concern likely stems from
fears about divisive labor protests. Labor union surrogates agitated with violence
and vandalism in the wake of Michigan’s passage of Workplace Fairness and
Equity back in 2012. If anything else, Walker’s support to sign the law, and
the protests which may likely follow, will only expose the illicit and tyrannical
nature of modern-day labor unions, plus their increased disservice to America’s
work force.
Individuals should not be punished with unemployment simply
because they do not want to join a union. Furthermore, American workers should
not be forced to subsidize political candidates and causes, whether they
support them or not, because they are forced to pay dues to a union which they
had no choice to join.
Thomas Jefferson rebuked such politicized chicanery:
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for
the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and
tyrannical.”For this reason alone, right-to-work is a necessary
legislative safeguard, not just for individual employees, but the integrity of
our democratic form of government.