You’ve heard the anti-worker, anti-union phrase, “right to work?”

It’s one of those ideas that sounds good, but ain’t.

We say, “right to work is wrong! Don’t trust it.”

Right to work is wrong laws are designed to bust unions and deny workers a voice on the job.

In right to work is wrong states, workers are paid less and workplaces become less safe. In fact, serious injuries and deaths on the job increase in right to work is wrong states.

Think about it: in right to work is wrong states a worker has no union and no voice on the job, and can be fired for any reason without cause so when the boss orders a worker to perform a task that is potentially injurious or deadly, the worker has to either say yes or lose their job.

Where did this all start? A nutjob named Vance Muse coined the term when he headed the Christian American Association because he didn’t want minorities working next to whites in the old South.

In Ohio, just about every two years, an anti-union, anti-workers’ rights lawmaker introduces a right to work is wrong bill.

State Rep. Levi Dean, R-Xenia, sponsored HB 510 on Oct. 14, 2025 and it was referred to the House Commerce and Labor Committee the next day.

We Are Ohio has been fighting back against right to work is wrong in Ohio for 15 years.

The day after voters said no to SB 5 in 2011 and protected collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public employees, the anti-worker Americans for Prosperity (AFP) announced they were going to bring right to work is wrong to Ohio.

AFP and groups like the Freedom Foundation and grasstops organizations affiliated with the State Policy Network (SPN) (in Ohio, the Buckeye Institute) made a push starting in 2010 to pass right to work is wrong laws in northern and midwestern states.

These organizations are funded by anti-worker billionaires like the Koch Family, Betsy DeVos and other anti-union fanatics. They pay for lawmakers to join and attend national conferences organized by ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council).

ALEC lawyers write cookie-cutter legislation and hand these ideas, like right to work is wrong, over to lawmakers in state after state.

Anti-worker lawmakers starting in Indiana in 2012, then Michigan (December 2012), followed by West Virginia (2016) and Kentucky (2017), all pushed through wildly unpopular right to work is wrong laws against the will of voters.

In Michigan, pro-worker lawmakers took control of the legislature and repealed the right to work is wrong law in 2024.

So if someone starts talking to you about right to work is wrong, ask yourself when was the last time billionaires and millionaires wanted to give a worker more rights on the job?

The answer is never.

Right to work is wrong. Don’t Trust It!

We Are Ohio