Right To Work Coming to Delaware?

I have been following the Right-to-Work trend of the last four years.

One of the biggest disappointments that I came across took place in New Hampshire.

The state has a GOP trifecta, and the governor Chris Sununu ran on a platform of right-to-work.

Yet the Republican majority in the state house had diminished during Election 2016. The right-to-work bill passed in the state senate, but in the House enough Republicans voted against it along with Democrats to kill the proposal for the session.

One can only hope that for Election 2018, Republicans will gain seats in the state house and then pass the legislation.

In other states which have not enacted right-to-work, state leaders have sought other means to give workers some freedom whether to join a union or not.

Governor Bruce Rauner of Illinois issued an executive order to protect public workers from forced unionism. The major union leaders immediately filed a lawsuit, which has worked its way up to the Supreme Court.

Governor Paul LePage of Maine enacted a budget and contract with one of the public employee unions. In the contract, the workers must be granted the opportunity to opt of the union and payment of dues. In a sense, LePage was finally able to get a form of right-to-work enacted in his state. Not perfect, but a compromise which inches towards worker fairness and equity.

Now, it looks like another blue state, Delaware, is looking towards enacting right-to-work provision at the local level.

The Daily Signal reports:

SEAFORD, Delaware—One Delaware county is poised to change its economic climate, with a council member prepared to fight for a right-to-work ordinance introduced Tuesday.

“This is not about ruffling political feathers, but is about the status quo no longer being tolerable for Sussex County and … the need for private sector jobs,” said Councilman Rob Arlett in an interview with The Daily Signal.

“Actual real wages have decreased in Delaware,” added Arlett. “Why should that be OK?”

Right-to-work laws prohibit private sector employers from entering into agreements that make union membership and payment of union dues a condition of employment.

Later in the article, the reporter indicated that legal challenges to local or county ordinance right-to-work initiatives have failed, which would allow jurisdictions like Sandoval County, New Mexico to pursue a similar process as Sussex County, Delaware.

This is great news for the Freedom to Work movement.

These reforms could also signal another necessary blow to Big Government labor unions and the regressive leftist agenda still holding states and cities hostage all over the country. The last line of easy money for the diminishing Democratic Party has been Big Labor. With the end of forced unionism and coerced dues, you can expect the Progressive Left to lose even more ground in their hateful, anti-American culture wars.