TY - JOUR T1 - Right to Work and Health: What the Most Recent Attack on Organized Labor Will Mean for American Workers’ Health and Safety JF - Kennedy School Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Danyaal Raza KW - anti-unionism KW - right-to-work KW - Scott Walker KW - union-busting KW - Wisconsin AB -

[Excerpt] Organized labor is under attack. In 2011, in the depths of an icy Midwestern winter, roughly 100,000 Wisconsinites descended upon their state capitol. Just one month into his term, Governor Scott Walker’s ultimately successful attempt to strip state workers of labor rights provided the rallying cry. His unassumingly titled Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill sought to buoy the state budget by restricting collective bargaining and changing union membership rules. While Walker’s bill did reduce the state deficit, it did so like a chemotherapy drug gone wrong.

VL - 2014 Issue L2 - eng UR - http://harvardkennedyschoolreview.com/right-to-work-and-health/ ER -