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@GavinTheViking So the Right to Work has zero effect
I like this bot, it's helpful
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@ThatRightWingFish Not it has an effect, but not a major one in my opinion. I'll type up a quick explainer to right-to-work.
Okay
How close is the Missouri Senate Race looking?
This guy on Youtube called "Let's talk elections" seems to do a pretty good job breaking things down
Although, they have Bob Corker's seat flipping blue
Videos are so much better than reading
Right To Work:
Nationwide, you can't be forced to be in a private sector union, which means you aren't forced to pay union dues (money required for bargaining wages + political funds). In Non Right-to-Work (RTW) states, non-union members at a union workplace don't have to pay union dues, but still have to pay what's called an "agency fee", which is basically the money required for bargaining wages, and is somewhere between 70% and 85% of the normal amount union dues would be.
RTW makes it to where non-union members won't have to pay this agency fee. The unions have responded, saying that these employees will still be represented by the union when it comes to settling grievances for management and bargaining for their wage. They calls these workers who don't pay because of RTW laws as "free riders".
However, the problem of free riders is one made by the unions themselves. Almost always, unions negotiate with the employers to have "exclusive bargaining representation". This means the union represents all members and non-members, and is the only union that can operate in the workplace. Unions use this monopoly of negotiation powers as an argument of why individual workers should still be forced to be represented by them, when those workers could represent themselves, like all non-union workers do in non-union workplaces, which is 91% of Missouri's workers.
Yes, The spoken word is just as powerful as the written word
Sucks we don't have the strongest candidates in the Rust Belt.
Those states may not be ready for Republican Senators yet, but just ready enough for voting for a Republican for president.
Like how Colorado has a Republican Senator, but is pretty Safe Democrat when it comes to the president.
Source on Right to Work
@jpc1976 "Let's Talk Elections" is some 13 year old kid who does an absolutely awful job, I'm not sure why people actually give him any praise
@GavinTheViking but we can win the rust belt, we just don't have the people I guess
Once the conservative Democrats are overtaken by the Progressives with party leadership in the Rust Belt, then conservative Dems will start to flip/continue to flip to Republican
Look at state legislatures in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
Look at the guy running in Paul Ryan's District
An Iron Worker endorsed by Bernie
Michigan: Senate 27-10 (R), House 63-46 (R) [Flipped majority R in 2011]
Republican?
Nope Democrat
Paul Ryan's District goes 60%-30% for Republican so its seems pretty safe
The Conservative running is
Eh
Doesn't even have Immigration as an issue on his website
Did Paul Ryan?
Not sure
It may not be a district that needs a strong immigration stance.
Paul Ryan was pretty cucky on immigration
Minnesota:
Senate 33-33 (1 Vacancy) [D control until 2011, R control 2011-2012, D control/swingy ever since 2012]
House 77-56 (R) [D from 1992-1998, R from 1999-2006, D from 2007-2010, swing since 2010]