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J. Mark Burnside Personal Choice Party Candidate For Utah House of Representatives District 15 |
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E-mail: burnside2006@earthlink.net Website: http://mark.personalchoice.org
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Utah: A Right to Work State
The
following letter is my response to a
"Right To Work" Survey
I received:
Mr. Mark
Mix
National
Right to Work Committee
8001
Braddock Road
Springfield, Virginia 22160
Dear Sir,
I
believe that every individual should have the right to work. I am
opposed to unions and forced unionization as it is a business killer.
However, we have “right to work” laws here in Utah, and the result of
that is that the people of Utah, one of the worlds most highly
educated and trained workforces, are trying to support families on
$7.00 an hour jobs.
Unless
business will become more socially responsible and guarantee a living
wage to every worker business becomes much more oppressive than any
union boss ever could be. I detest forced unionization on moral
grounds. However it is much better to be unionized at $20.00 an hour
or more, and pay forced dues, than it is to have the so called “right
to work” at starvation wages. People could tolerate starvation wages
when we had a socially responsible welfare system. Now that welfare is
being fazed-out people in the right to work states actually face the
bleak prospect of starvation, cold winters and evictions from family
homes. Unions exist because by and large business owners are more
interested in profit and loss than in the well being of employees.
There are
moral and ethical business owners. BUT, IT IS AND WAS THE
AMORAL BUSINESS OWNER THAT FORCES THE
EXISTENCE OF UNIONS. Without unions as a stop-gap this country would
have been forced into a bloody civil war type revolution that could
have, and perhaps will yet, provide an opening for the domination of
our society by communists and socialists.
If the
mandatory minimum wage placed a family of four above the poverty line
I would and could support your cause. However UNLESS and UNTIL the
minimum wage becomes a living wage I must tolerate unionism even
though it is repugnant to me.
If the
workers starve who will make the products? If customers are freezing
and homeless, who will buy the product? Your candidate Rob Bishop is
naïve, short sighted and socially irresponsible, and does not have my
support. Your special interest group does not have my support even
though I understand your rational, and even though we both detest
forced unionization with its coercive and depraved leadership, and
tactics. What you advocate is much worse.
Kindest
Regards,
Mark
Burnside
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