Votes 'no' protects workers
Missourians should vote "NO" on Proposition A Tuesday.
Voter's are being sold a "bill of goods" by out-of-state billionaires and special interest groups who represent businesses that are shipping jobs overseas and downsizing. Prop A will not help workers in Missouri.
The U.S. Department of Labor reports that in states with right to work laws like Prop A, workers make on average $8,740 a year less. The workplace fatality rates are 54 percent higher in right-to-work states. The rates of workers with health insurance and available pensions is less in right-to-work states. Newly created jobs in right-to-work states are more likely to be low wage jobs with little to no benefits.
Without strong union protections, many workers may face seeing their full-time jobs moved to part-time to save their employers money.
Unions have historically protected workers from unlawful discrimination, unlawful termination, and unlawful harassment in the workplace. All of these protections will be eroded under Prop A. The ability of labor unions to protect workers is one of the most important factors protecting the middle and lower classes from working in conditions like China and Mexico.
Prop A harkens back to policies of before the Great Depression. Thousands of workers have fought for over 85 years for the right to unionize and help protect workers. Prop A is an attack on the progress made by workers over those eight decades.
In a time where an international trade war may be on the horizon and it is harder and harder to support a family for the middle and lower class, workers need all the help they can get. Prop A will hurt workers. Prop A will hurt families. Prop A is wrong for Missouri. Vote NO on Prop A.