Recently, Indiana became the 24th right to work state in America. Right to work laws ensure that employees don’t have to join a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment, but they still receive all of the benefits of being in a union.

Proponents contend that such laws enable a more business-friendly environment and lead to economic growth for U.S. citizens. In reality, right to work laws do just the opposite. According to the Economic Policy Institute, right to work laws reduce wages by $1,500 a year for employees, considerably lower the chance that employees get health care or pensions through their jobs, and have no impact on job-growth.

Last year, organizations such as the National Right to Work Committee and the American Legislative Exchange Council presented Americans with a number of junk science “statistics.” In actual statistics, conducting measurements while holding everything else equal is called “regression analysis.”

Advocacy groups such as the council hold nothing equal and assume that right to work explains job growth in certain states, meanwhile ignoring other factors such as globalization and private sector vs. public sector job growth. It’s up to us to refute the junk science that billionaires are trying to push upon us. Right to work laws are part of a political agenda that lowers wages and lessens the quality of working conditions. Disposable income of employees is an essential component of any thriving economy. Implementing right to work laws will only widen the income gap in America, a country built by the working class that cannot survive without them.

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