#tellusatoday: Do more right-to-work states send signal?

We asked our followers on Twitter for their take on today's labor unions. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:

Unions should realize that they need to change with the times. Unions are an antiquated system.

-- @ep5954

Globalism makes unions irrelevant in the private sector. How can a union keep power if work is easily "offshored" now?

-- @MaggioMatt

A painful but required step in the process of lowering labor costs, and inevitable to re-establish globally competing manufacturing jobs in the USA.

-- @moor_joris

Unions have gotten rotten, but they need reform, not to be abolished. Uneducated young don't know workers' past struggles.

-- @MaryKay416

Passage of right-to-work laws means there will be plenty of low-wage, low-benefit jobs available.

-- @wjpmayfield

Unions have bankrupted too many businesses. Business/government trying to tame them now.

-- @HarpAmyStabler

The Republicans are running unions into the ground.

-- @LenzCasey

Unions have become irrelevant because they have made it so. They were unwilling to change with the times.

-- @MaterLupa

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