Right to Work Good for Michigan

Michigan, a bastion of the labor movement since the explosion of the auto industry, seems on the verge of becoming a right to work state. That is, a state where employees would not be compelled to join a union in order to get or keep their job. The best which can be said about this is, it's about time.

How many forces out there believe that they are so good for the people that they must make the people support them? The Lord doesn't do that: even though a belief in God is of supreme importance to our well being, and He knows that, God doesn't make us go to Church. He knows that anything good must be freely chosen if it is to have any real value at all.

But, of course, men think like men and God thinks like God. So much so that when some men and women have power over other men and women, they like to, ahem, lord it over those beneath their heel.

Yes, we realize that unions need a great amount of support to survive. Yet that still begs the question at hand: if unions are so much for the individual, what does it say of them when they won't allow the individual to make his own choice about joining a union?

Big Labor is no worse, nor any better, than Big Business under such a scenario. Either one, when they have you under their thumb, can become unbearable. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. No matter who wields it. Michigan would be better off as a right to work state.