Tell that to workers making six bucks an hour in nursing homes. Many people in Oklahoma do not receive a just wage, more extensive union organizing efforts can help improve this unjust situation. Even as we go to press, the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates, using state action to deliberately increase unemployment and drive down wages. Working men and women need strong unions to give them a seat at the bargaining tables where these kinds of deals are made. The tyranny of unchecked economic power is no less deadly than the tyranny of unchecked political power.
Economic totalitarianism is no more beneficial to the common good than political totalitarianism.
Checks and balances are necessary, strong unions help build a just, fair, and free market economy. We have far more trust in the ability of the people to work their own way out of the problems we have than we do in the greed of corporations in far away places whose only interest in this state is exploiting our neighbors for low wages. Then they take their profits home, away from this community. The problem with this is that nobody gets to the Kingdom of God by glorifying, praising, encouraging, and defending sin. If we think that all is not right in Oklahoma, the solution is not to attack important institutions of civil society that have a long history of making a positive contribution to the common good.