Right to Work for less

It's like groundhog day in NH politics.  Every two years, a so-called Right to Work bill comes before the NH Legislature.  This has happened in NH for the past 20 plus years. Why?  Because the anti-unionists only have to win once - labor must win every time.  So they keep coming.

The argument this year is that so-called Right to Work will bring businesses to NH.  I just don't get it.  The default position of Taft-Hartley (the law that gave birth to Right to Work) is that agency fee must be negotiated between the employer and the employees.  It must be agreed to by both parties - that's how contracts work.

So, if you own a business, and you support so-called Right to Work-type environments, why would you agree to a contract that allows it?  What our elected officials are telling us is that business owners prefer a law that prohibits agency fee (simply a portion of union dues that non-members pay to cover the costs of negotiating and administering a collective bargaining agreement from which they benefit) rather than simply not agreeing to it as part of a negotiation.

This makes no sense to me.