Romney "Right to Work" = 1% right to pay you less; with no benefits

The average worker in a right-to-work state is paid $30,167 a year, or about $5,333 a year less than workers in other states without right-to-work legislation that favors the employer at the expense of the employee, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.



Labor leaders failed to win legislation making it easier to organize a union after Democratic allies triumphed in the 2008 elections. Next year’s voting may spawn instead a law letting workers opt out of unions.



Republicans in Congress are pursuing so-called right-to- work legislation barring agreements between unions and employers that make union membership and payment of dues a job requirement, Bloomberg Government reports. 


“There is a very strong likelihood that a Republican Congress and a Republican White House would pass a national right-to-work law,” Gary Chaison, a labor-law professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, said in an interview. “It should be expected from a Republican Congress that, in terms of national jobs growth, sees unions as part of the problem rather than part of the solution.”