Perspective: Labor activists can learn from the decades-long campaign to undermine their influence by focusing on state-level action to bolster their cause.
now in Democratic control repealed the state’s right-to-work law, which was passed under Republican control in 2012. This represents a major victory for labor — one that could be replicated in other states.
After decades of failed attempts by national employer groups and business magnates to ban union security, the first right-to-work laws were successfully passed at the state level. being hired. Crucially, Taft-Hartley left it up to individual states to pass further, more restrictive bans on other common forms of union security.The Southern origin of right-to-work was no accident. During World War II, as workers transitioned to high-paying defense industry jobs or were drafted to fight, the demand for agricultural labor skyrocketed. As a result, oft-exploited Southern farmworkers were suddenly in the rare position to claim workplace protections and union organizing rights.
Thanks to these state-level anti-union alliances, by the time Congress passed the federal Taft-Hartley Act that undermined the power of labor unions, the path was set for individual state governments to pass new right-to-work laws. By the end of 1947, 10 more states had right-to-work laws on the books.Through the second half of the 20th century, states in the South and Southwest — desperately eager to recruit Northern businesses — passed their own forms of the law.
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