Repeal work-for-less laws? ('Pail Poll)

Well, you scored well on last week's 'Pail Poll: You voted 12 to 4 in favor of a federal law to prohibit corporal punishment in America's schools.

This week's 'Pail Poll deals with an important issue: so-called "right-to-work" laws. Or as I call them, right-to-scab laws or work-for-less laws.

Over 20 states hamstring workers with these laws. Work-for-less laws weaken unions and workers. These laws drive down wages, and they undermine workplace safety standards. These statutes accomplish this by forcing union workers to pay to represent nonunion employees.

Work-for-less laws didn't exist in America until the late 1940s, when the Taft-Hartley Act passed over President Truman's veto. This federal law authorized states to pass work-for-less.

This week's 'Pail Poll asks whether these provisions should be repealed.

And repeal them we should.