Missouri lawmakers send 'right-to-work' bill to Gov. Greitens' desk

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports:

A moment long dreaded by the state’s labor unions and their supporters arrived Thursday, as Missouri lawmakers sent a proposal known as “right to work” to a Republican governor who has promised for months that he would sign it.

When he does, Missouri will become the 28th right-to-work state, marking the first time in U.S. history that more than half of the nation’s workforce lives in states with such laws.

The fast-tracked bill, which will prohibit unions from requiring workers to pay dues as a condition of employment, has been deemed both a solution for the state’s stagnant job growth and a thinly disguised effort to weaken union influence.

Labor law experts and economists have found flaws with both of those arguments, but the issue has made for a heated debate in state legislatures across the country.

Unions about to lose their special privilege in Missouri.