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- Title
IS RIGHT-TO-WORK WRONG FOR MISSOURI? A CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNFEASIBLE NATURE OF RIGHT-TO-WORK IN THE SHOW-ME STATE.
- Authors
Glasgow, Jordan
- Abstract
In 2014, the Missouri General Assembly voted on a labor statute that would have created the twenty-fifth right-to-work state in the country. Touting economic benefits, the General Assembly's House of Representatives leadership supported the statute, and a similar bill that died in committee. However, with a Democrat in the Governor's Mansion, the bill was under threat of veto, and the strong labor union sector in Missouri made its opposition known. As a result, the bill failed to gain enough votes to pass. The Missouri Constitution expressly grants Missourians the right to bargain collectively and join a union, and some argue that a right-to-work bill would limit these rights. This Comment examines the constitutional feasibility of a right-to-work statute in Missouri. Through examination of national labor and Missouri precedent, this comment argues that Missouri voters, upon ratification of the State Constitution, understood collective bargaining as including the right to negotiate over union security clauses. Thus, Missouri's current constitutional framework makes right-to-work unfit for the state.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RIGHT-to-work laws; CONSTITUTIONAL law; MISSOURI. General Assembly; LABOR laws; LEGISLATIVE voting
- Publication
UMKC Law Review, 2015, Vol 84, Issue 2, p469
- ISSN
0047-7575
- Publication type
Article