Argumentative Essay On Right To Work Law

Register to read the introduction… While I have explained the ideas behind the supporters of these laws, there are also opponents. In a more recent 2012 study from Michael Hicks, an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center, “found that from 1929 through 2005, the presence of a right-to-work law did not play a role in state industrial composition or income from manufacturing” (Lafaive, 2012). Opponents of right-to-work laws contend the laws set in place lead to lower wages, hurt unions, lower standard of living, and sometimes contest that they are morally wrong for allowing people to receive union representation without actually paying for it. Douglas McCabe, a professor of management at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business states, “If more states pass right-to-work, unions will lose members. He goes on to saying that it would discourage people from signing authorization cards to be able to hold a vote on unionizing” (Olson, 2012).

CONCLUSION: “Each side of the right-to-work argument cites studies to back their views, but a uniform economic society is hard to find because individual states have their own, unique economic circumstances, such as availability of skilled workers and access to markets and infrastructure” …show more content…
The choice is clear to me, the benefits of right-to-work laws, mainly stronger economic growth and new job creation; outweigh the suggested negative right-to-work laws, mainly the possibility of weakened unions and wages. In either case the research revealed that the real wages are the same, but the economic growth and job creation are different. I believe a right-to-work law would benefit the state of