Is Right-to-Work: Protecting workers or UNION-Busting??!!

First of all, you never "work for a Union". You work for an employer, and that employer comes to an AGREEMENT between itself and the employees, which is how you get a Collective Bargaining Agreement in the first place. The Union can't force itself on the employees. They have to vote them in. The Union represents the employees in their negotiations with the employer, but the employees DO NOT "work for the union", and to suggest so is absolutely ridiculous.

Secondly, as long as there is a CBA in place, it forbids Union employees from striking, so I don't know where you got that idea.

Your particular situation is very far from the norm. You are a guy who makes a six figure salary, so you are not like the average factory worker. Your company may have been great, and there are some who do treat their people well, and share the profits with them, but there are far more others who refuse to share any of the wealth, and that's why we are in the situation we are in today. Look at the gap between what the people at the top of corporations make, and what the average worker makes now, and compare it to 30 years ago, when Union representation was much stronger. If you want to buy into the right wing media propaganda that Unions are the cause of all of our problems, then be my guest.

Only a small percentage of the American workforce is Union, but they still send our manufacturing jobs overseas, and have been for a long time.

Answer me this question:

If Unions are the problem, why aren't all of these companies manufacturing their goods in the so called "Right to Work" States instead of China and India?

Thanks for an intelligent and respectful response. To the first point, shutting down a site is not the same thing as going on strike. For instance, if the electricians refuse to supply power to non union workers or facilities, then they are shutting down the site, but they are not on strike. The fault really lies with the client, who should know that they can't get away with that when they are working under a CBA. We have clients who try to be dishonest, and weasel their way around the contract that they AGREED to all the time, and then feign outrage when the Union responds in that way.

By saying that your situation is far from the norm, I mean that you are obviously a highly specialized and skilled individual, who has the ability to negotiate directly with a client. The average working class American really doesn't have that ability, and is fearful of approaching management because they are considered to be no better than cattle by the Corporations. There is only strength in numbers for them, and that's why they organize.

I grew up a block down the street from a manufacturing plant owned by a big Pharma company(Wyeth Labs). It was the main employer for our town.They were non-union, and they paid well, and paid good benefits, and almost everyone in town worked there, including my Father. They paid well, but they could be quite abusive at times, including forced overtime without notice. Every time the employees talked about organizing, they would threaten to move the jobs to Puerto Rico. Eventually, the employees were scared off from organizing and things would return to normal. This went on for the life of the facility. After all those years of non-union workers devoting their lives to the company, who made Billions of dollars in profits from the fruits of their labor, they moved the jobs to Puerto Rico anyway. Have a great weekend.