All Eyes on Kansas?! Missouri Faces Its Own Paycheck Deception (and Broadly Anti-Union) Battle

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Gov. Jay Nixon, strong on labor, may be the only thing standing between Missour and anti-worker measures


With all southern Midwest labor eyes on Kansas’ paycheck deception fight, a series of anti-worker bills are quietly making their way through the Missouri legislature that could could turn The Show Me State into a new battleground for controversial labor laws.

It’s no coincidence that the Americans for Prosperity agenda is being thrust upon Missouri, one of the purplest states in the union, as the Tea Party scrambles to work their radical policies into shape in what is becoming a “now or never” moment for the fading Right-Wing movement.

Republicans in Missouri are poised to move ahead with a bill prohibiting unions from using automatic paycheck deductions for political activities (the aforementioned paycheck deception as labor supporters call it). In addition, Rep. Casey Guernsey’s HB34 is currently being debated by the Workforce Development and Workplace Safety committee which would allow school districts to exempt themselves from prevailing wage requirements if their school board voted to do so. Laborers International Union of Americal (LiUNA) Local 264 provided this checklist of what Missourians need to know concerning anti-prevailing wage laws:

• Anti-prevailing wage bills are all about politics. They won’t create jobs and they won’t get our state’s economy back on track. The bill will benefit the same greedy CEOs and corporations that have been outsourcing jobs at the expense of middle class Missouri workers.

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