Well, "right-to-work" is pretty much like, right-to-try-to-avoid-starving, or right-to-sustain-on-the-job-injuries, or right-to-work-as-many-jobs-as-it-takes-while-your-kids-forget-what-you-look-like.
When Nikki Haley says "right-to-work", it's like when Jim Demint says "freedom"-- freedom for Jim Demint, not so much the rest of us.
The bad old unions that Nikki Haley is saving us from are what would allow us to strive toward a living wage, decent benefits, job security. We were on our way to that goal, and then Ronald Reagan, greater actor than we ever thought he was, convinced us that our bad economic times were because of the evil union, not the greedy corporations.
Sure some businesses will still move down here, in spite of the bad schools, bad roads, bad economy. They'll take all of our tax incentives, bring in all their management level staff, and hire our low-level, inadequately trained high school grads (or drop-outs), pay them as little as they can get away with, with insufficent benefits and no job security, because we are a "right-to-work" state.
Some businesses will not do that, though. They will not want to move their management to a state where "minimally adequate" is the standard for public schools, and too many people can't afford to buy the stuff they make.
Meanwhile, Nikki Haley is proud that our unemployment is so high we have to take whatever job we can, and there are no unions around to help us negotiate a living wage.
I want to switch, not topics, but races here. Because we have, in Congressional District 1, a candidate who is not afraid to stand up for workers' rights. He knows that workers need good, safe jobs, with a living wage, with health care for themselves and their families, with job security. When businesses are able to shut out unions, and the workers are squeezed, the economy will suffer.
Rob Groce wants to go to the House of Representatives and fight for the right for all of us, not just to work, but to live and work.
So, two things:
Spread the word about Vincent Sheheen for Governor.
www.vincentsheheen.com
And get to know Rob Groce. He is running under the Working Families Party, because that is what he believes in.
www.groceforcongress.com
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