This Isn’t What They Mean by Recycling

Proponents of so-called right to work laws often use devious tactics. Here’s a case in point.
 
(Laws called “right to work,” which were given that catchy but misleading name by Big Business, are state laws that actually don’t guarantee workers any rights. What they really do is weaken unions and employee bargaining and destroy the best job security protection that exists: the union contract. Meanwhile, they allow some workers to pay nothing and get all the benefits of union membership.)
 
Kentucky is one of several states trying to pass a right to work law this year, and its governor, Ernie Fletcher, is one of the proposed law’s biggest supporters. So, Fletcher spent $10,000 in taxpayer money to commission a report that would help make his case to slash workers’ wages (employees in right to work states on average make about $5,333 a year less than workers in other states).
 
Turns out, the report is a recycled version of another report the author prepared for Michigan four years ago. Portions are identical to the Michigan report—14 of 15 references at the end of report are the same and the introductions are strikingly similar. The 10-page report, by $330-an-hour consultant William T. Wilson, apparently took 30 hours to prepare at  $1,000 a page, or three hours a page. Most college students probably have cranked out 10-page papers in a whole lot less time.      

www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/13745213.htm 
 
Find out more about Kentucky workers and their fight to protect their paychecks.
www.aflcio.org/issues/legislativealert/stateissues/ns01122006.cfm 

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