Indiana will be hosting the Super Bowl in a few weeks, but for now the battle is about the right-to-work legislation. Unions representing construction workers are presenting tough resistant against the right-to-work bill, that is being discussed by Indiana lawmakers.
If approved, Indiana would become the first state in a decade to prohibit union contracts at private-sector businesses from requiring workers who choose not to be union members to pay dues or fees to the union. Twenty-two other states already have such laws, but Indiana would be the first in the Great Lakes manufacturing region, and passage here seems likely to encourage similar efforts already under consideration elsewhere. Union directors will keep pushing back the bill while protecting their rights to avoid union disappearance.
N.F.L. Players Association on Friday issued a sharp critique of the proposal, which the association deemed 'a political ploy designed to destroy basic workers' rights.' To meet the House rules that 67 members be present to call for a vote, only 7 Democrats are needed.
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