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Misery in Missouri

October 26, 2018 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

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As Missouri voters soon head to the polls to cast a vote in what has become a very tight race between Attorney General Josh Hawley (R), and a Sen. Claire McCaskill (D), it would pay to think about which candidate is more likely to side with hard working voters rather than union bosses. Read through this piece I wrote on August 9, 2018, and consider who will fight against union corruption. The answer of course, is Josh Hawley. 

On Tuesday, union bosses spent big money to strong arm voters in Missouri to overturn a recently passed (2016) right-to-work law. Overturning its right-to-work laws essentially eliminates the word “choice” for workers. Now, instead of having a choice whether or not to join the union, workers will be forced to pay dues in order to work at a union shop as The WSJ reports:

Big spending paid off for Big Labor on Tuesday as Missouri voters rejected right-to-work legislation by an overwhelming 2 to 1. Compulsory dues will help offset the unions’ $27 million investment in political coercion.

In 2016 unions spent some $12 million to support a Missouri Democratic gubernatorial candidate who vowed to veto right-to-work legislation that lets workers decide if they want to join a union. That effort failed, and then- Gov. Eric Greitens signed it into law his first month in office.

But under Missouri’s constitution, petitioners have 90 days after a legislative session to gather signatures for a voter referendum that can override new laws. Unions got three times as many signatures as they needed to put the referendum on the ballot, and they spent more than $15 million campaigning for Tuesday’s right-to-work repeal. That’s nearly five times what proponents of the law spent.

Union activists also canvassed the homes of more than half a million Missourians. Meanwhile, the state’s right-to-work movement lost its most prominent spokesman in May when Mr. Greitens resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign-finance violations. The magnitude of the referendum defeat is nonetheless startling.

Tuesday’s vote puts Missouri at a disadvantage in the fierce interstate competition for business investment. Seven of its eight neighboring states already have right-to-work laws. Illinois is the exception, of course.

After workers in neighboring Kentucky joined the ranks of the free last year, the state announced a record $9.2 billion in corporate investment. That includes a $1.3 million Braidy Industries aluminum mill in Ashland, which was chosen over 24 other locations elsewhere in the U.S. “If Kentucky wasn’t a right-to-work-state,” CEO Craig Bouchard said, “it wouldn’t have been on the list.”

Given the choice after right-to-work passed, some 16,000 Kentucky workers decided union representation wasn’t worth the cost, opting out of membership. Public-union workers won the same freedom earlier this summer, thanks to the Supreme Court’s Janus ruling. Big Labor clearly feared the financial consequences if Missouri workers were free to choose whether or not to join unions in the private economy.

Tuesday’s vote marks the first time a right-to-work law has been overturned by popular vote. Union freedom had been on a roll in recent years, with legislative victories in Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana as well as Kentucky. The Missouri result is merely the beginning of the union counterattack, as AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka makes clear nearby. Business leaders had better shake off their complacency if they don’t want to be met one morning with a vote to unionize their own employees.

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E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy
E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zildjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com

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