Lawmakers are starting to talk about making New Mexico a right-to-work state

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Post

Lawmakers are starting to talk about making New Mexico a right-to-work state
By Niraj Chokshi November 14 at 3:00 PM

Republicans control the New Mexico state legislature for the first time in 60 years, and lawmakers there are beginning to suggest they may use their new majority to restrict union power.

State Senate Minority Leader Stuart Ingle (R-Portales) told the Albuquerque Journal that now “could be the time we get it through both houses,” referring to a right-to-work bill that would allow the state to prevent unions from requiring workers to pay dues. If the legislature were to pass the law during its two-month session that starts in late January, it would become the 25th state with such a law.

In states that lack right-to-work laws, labor unions may require employees to pay dues regardless of whether they join because they benefit from the negotiations the union conducts on the behalf of all employees.

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Ingle said the state’s lack of such a law puts it at an economic disadvantage because several neighboring states have such laws: “If we’re going to compete in New Mexico and draw businesses, we’re going to have to do something,” he told the Journal.


Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/11/14/lawmakers-are-starting-to-talk-about-making-new-mexico-a-right-to-work-state/

[upaloopa]

1. Join the race to the bottom

[valerief]

2. ^^^THIS^^^

[SoapBox]

9. Ditto.

AZ is one...when I went to work for America West Airlines in 1984, management used to rub that "you, have the right to work" bullshit in our faces...it simply meant they could fire your ass when they wanted.

[Stainless]

3. They're getting what they voted for - LOL

Elect greedy Republicans and the workers get shafted. Bet they didn't see this coming when they were voting.

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Oh no fuck no! NM is poor enough!

[KamaAina]

5. !Abajo Tejana Susana!

[jmowreader]

6. "We have to compete and draw businesses" is the standard GOP rallying cry

It was either 2012 or 2013 that Idaho attempted to bump its highway load limit up to 140,000 pounds on an 8-axle truck because Montana and Wyoming have 140,000 lb weight limits. "We have to compete and draw businesses!" was justification. That effort died when someone pointed out the reason Montana and Wyoming have those limits - the coal industry - doesn't exist in Idaho, nor could it because there's no coal here.

I do find it slightly interesting that New Mexico residents had a GOP congress inflicted on them to solve all the state's problems and this is the biggest problem the GOP sees.

[LovingA2andMI]

7. Has done NOTHING for Michigan.....

Nothing at all....

[Omaha Steve]

8. IF they try this crap

There is a DU lurker in NM that will testify to the committee about this!!!

[progree]

10. Sad. Its been a blue state in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections

(the only exception was in 2004 -- Bush v. Kerry)

http://www.270towin.com/states/New_Mexico

and now to read that both houses of the state legislature will be RepubliCON. (Both houses are in Democratic hands currently -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_Legislature )

And the governor too, a RepublCON - http://electionresults.sos.state.nm.us/resultsSW.aspx?type=SW&map=CTY

[Brigid]

11. It's worked so well here in IN.