Arizona Works Together is seeking better wages for Arizona workers by repealing Arizona’s unfair, anti-union laws. To get fair laws for fair pay, voters must repeal the state’s 1946 anti-union ‘right to work’ constitutional amendment.
”Big business has changed the law to line their pockets for almost 80 years. But enough is enough, and it’s time to fight back. Arizona is sick of bowing to billionaire bullies. We want fair laws for fair pay,” said Robert Nichols, chairman of the Arizona Works Together initiative.
”Right to Work” laws make that impossible. That name is deceiving, but the numbers don’t lie. In the U.S., workers in “RTW” states earn about $10,000 less than in non-RTW states on average every year.
Workers deserve better pay, better jobs, secure retirement, and economic freedom.
Arizonans have shown an increasing interest in worker rights. Voters, who approved the constitutional provision in 1946 by a 55-45% margin, might have different thoughts today.
Repeal of the 1946 amendment would make it easier for unions to organize once it was clear that everyone who would benefit from their negotiations would pay a fair share, Nichols said.
In 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just 5.5% of all wage and salary workers in the state were union members. Even at union membership’s most recent peak in 2007 and 2008, it averaged just 8.8%.
But Nichols said it will cost anywhere from $6 million to $14 million to gather the 383,923 valid signatures by next July 3 to put the Arizona measure on the 2024 ballot and then to run a campaign.
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When I was a cop starting in the early 1970s, our union was very effective and popular. Of the roughly 1200 cops, only 2 or 3 didn’t join. They had a legal right not to join and they exercise it. The union didn’t care and I didn’t care. It was their right. The bottom line is that good unions do not need laws forcing people to join or pay them money. Bad unions do need such coercive laws.