Right-to-work law

They didn't get involved too much here in West Virginia.

But in Virginia, where you have right to work, they were terrible.

They were awful.

First time Bethel went down there, there was 500 state trooper cars parked there.

They couldn't even find a place to stay overnight.

Well, you see, they've got a right to work law in Virginia.

Lord, I'd love to see that thing done away with.

But just as soon as a company has a strike, that's the first thing they ask for is support from the state.

It's been months now since we had him.

Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.

Mark, welcome back to the Reg the Joe Show.

I hope you've had a, you enjoyed a great summer.

Labor policy goes back to the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s, and one of the dramatic changes in federal law was this power grab over private sector workers' rights.

And basically, they gave union officials dramatic powers and privileges over workers, and unfortunately, to this very day, we're still fighting, uh, that power.

And the good news is, is more and more employees across the country are, are raising up, and they're coming out and saying, "We need to change these rules, and if we can't change them, we need to exercise what limited rights we have." And we've been doing a lot of that, uh, here at the foundation since 1968, at the Right to Work Committee since 1955, and, uh, there's still a lot of work to do, Joe, that's for sure.

Well, and, uh, the, one of the things I was gonna comment, we, you know, we're talking about the summer.

Alright, so let's talk a little bit about it because one of the things, you're the perfect person to talk about this, I think, in many ways because you've seen the sausage being made at 23rd Lincoln and public policy, if you look at what's happening across the country, seems to be that are empowering unions and union workers and organized labor are the ones that are seeing not only the most growth in those numbers, but are also seeing the economic benefit of that.

Meanwhile, we're one of the 26 states with right to work for less that is making it harder, or trying to make it harder, right? So...

Yeah, it was 25 years ago this month since Rapport passed in Oklahoma.

And it was, you know, sort of...

Yes, you did.

But it's important that you get out and vote.

And Right to Work passed narrowly 25 years ago this year.

You may not know this, but the Harvard of the Midwest, the University of Oklahoma, has the largest archive of campaign ads, perhaps in the country.