Dear Editor:
I was surprised to read Rev. W. T. Edmonson's letter published Feb. 15. I guess I have never thought of a man of God supporting any policy which can deprive a person of a basic American right of free access to employment in order to support a family.
How is it Christian for a person being denied a job because they didn't have the needed influential connection and/or the money to join a union and keep a job?
It's a well known fact that private sector union membership is falling for two reasons. They are now irrelevant because their original purpose of worker protections have been replaced by government protections under OSHA, the NLRB and anti-discrimination laws. The primary reason though is their wages and benefits are not competitive in the world marketplace.
It should be obvious to everyone by now that the majority of new manufacturing being established is in right-to-work states in the south and that existing union-based American manufacturing cannot compete with the lower price of imports.
Had General Motors not been propped up by Obama with loans they would have been forced into bankruptcy. Of course the UAW was also given a huge gift of ownership in the company which I'm sure is being repaid with contributions to Democrat party campaigns.
Bottom line, should Missouri workers be punished because of outdated legislation which so obviously hinders growth of business and jobs in our state?
Remember, this is America, the land of the free not the land of the protected privileged.