Gov. Jay Nixon
- Preserve Middle Class America is essentially run by the Teamsters. Their address confirms this – it’s the same as IBT Local 245 headquarters. The group has also received nearly $2 million from the Teamsters and other local unions.
- We Are Missouri has received approximately $45,000 in payments from the AFL-CIO Headquarters in Washington, DC.
The Missouri House attempted to override Nixon’s veto in a vote last week, but failed to gain a two-thirds majority. Those who oppose right-to-work laws claim that they make it “harder for middle class families to protect their wages and job security.” These ideas are further ingrained through the use of “fundamentally flawed” data. James Sherk, a research fellow in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation, points to a paper published by Economic Policy Institute as an example. The paper concluded that right-to-work laws reduce wages by 3 percent. The problem with the data in this case, Sherk says, is that EPI failed to take into account the differences in cost of living.
