Will Missourians Maintain Their Workplace Freedoms?

Early last year, before former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens resigned in disgrace for personal failing and criminal investigations, the Republicans in the state legislature passed right-to-work legislation.

It was one of their first acts in the 2017-2018 legislative session, and the policy reform passed with little resistance.

Then Big Labor stepped in.

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They collected the signatures to challenge this law and have it repealed through state-wide initiative.

Today is the day, whether the voters believe the lies from Big Labor or whether they stand their ground and defend their re-asserted rights to organize or refrain from assembly with a labor union. The United States Supreme Court just reaffirmed the right of individual workers not to join with public sector unions or to pay union dues even if they choose not to join their workplace unions.

Now that Greitens has stepped down, and now that a more solid Republican caucus and leadership lead the state, how will tonight's vote go down?

This is a big test of the growing Right-to-work movement spreading across the country. Even in blue states like Delaware and New Mexico, right-to-work policies are slowly gaining ground. If not at the state level, at the county and even city level, elected officials are listening to the concerns of their constituents and recognizing their oaths of office to protect the rights of workers and small businesses.

No one should be forced to join a union as a condition of employment, and no one should be forced to pay dues. Let's hope that Show-Me State voters show up and protect their rights from Big Labor and the Democratic Party looking for every way possible to take away the freedoms of individual workers and line their own pockets at laborers' expense.