Right to Work and Right to Abort

Freedom, self-determination, and the right to choose:  that is how so-called liberals frame the abortion issue.   Women must be able to make their own independent, autonomous decisions.  No one should tell a woman what to do after she “mistakenly” becomes pregnant. 

Those same liberals have quite a different view of that same pregnant woman’s employment rights.  Liberals believe that pregnant women should be coerced into union membership, if they want to work.  There is no right to choose when choosing conflicts with liberal opinions.  In fact, liberal Michigan requires workers to pay union dues in union shops even when the worker, herself, is not a union member.

Here, once again, we observe the double standards and double speak so characteristic of liberalism.  The strident voices of liberal elite assail us with their visions of equality and justice.  But their pronouncements about justice and equality are identity-bound.  If you are a “loyal,” card-carrying  union worker, you are a true American patriot and deserve to be compensated handsomely, but if you decline a union, you are a scab who should be thrown out the door. 

Right to work laws permitting employees to decide whether or not to join a union are anathema to Obama liberals.  They apparently see a slippery slope:  If you let workers autonomously decide about their union membership, next thing you know they will expect to vote for whomever they want, a prelude to the demise of the Democratic Party. 

Control the purse strings and you control the labor union electorate.  Make the masses understand in no uncertain terms that the Democrats and the union bosses hold your jobs in the palms of their hands.  If you resist domination, you will be crushed, but if you play along, you will be richly rewarded.   For instance, according to Jeanne Sahadi of CNNMoney (January 31, 2012), “Federal workers with no more than a high school education are paid 21% more on average than their private-sector peers, and have average benefits worth 72% more.” 

Federal and other public sector unions vigorously promote private sector unions as well.  They know that once private sector dominoes begin falling, public unions cannot be far behind.  Josh Hicks of the Washington Post illustrated the tight public-private alliance when on December 12, 2012 he quoted J. David Cox, American Federation of Government Employees president, as he reacted to passage of Michigan’s new right to work law:

“This profoundly anti-democratic action is an affront to anybody who believes in democratic processes or even basic decency … The people of Michigan do not want this law, and Governor Snyder and the lawmakers who are trying to enact this anti-worker bill before their terms expire at the end of the year know full well that what they are doing is immoral and unjust.”

David Cox, and like-minded liberal democrats, then, believe that it is an affront, indecent, immoral, and unjust that Michigan employees, even pregnant ones, are free to choose or reject union membership, and free not to pay union membership dues when they decide not to join the union.  Double standards and double speak at its best.  God bless you, Mr. Cox, I could not have dreamed up a better example of the doubles.   I suggest that you assert your “I’ll decide for you” position in your discussions with  those who advocate a woman right to choose abortion.