Editor, Times-Union: By the time this letter is printed it will probably be all over but the sobbing. Hopefully, I am wrong. The so-called right to work law may be a foregone conclusion by the corporate class.
However, I would like to add a few observations. A series of anti-right to work meetings were held around the area. If I hadn’t seen the notice in the Times-Union letters column I would have missed it.
Verdict: too little too late and by too few. At the locale meeting, the issue was well presented but to only a small percentage of mostly union members.
Some well-written literature was handed out. Again, too little too late. Some nice cards were handed out to get to our representatives but it was too late for them to be received by mail. When I called a local union office about where to drop them off, all I got was a phone machine and no return call.
The issue of how union wages affect the whole community was not promoted on the street corners. When you apply the wealthy myth of trickle down to right-to-work states, it means lower wages mean people spend less into the community. Which means so long small business.
Pro-living wagers are putting all their eggs into the referendum basket, leaving it up to a lazy voter. That’s a trap. The corporate fat cats will outspend labor 20 to 1 to beat it.
