Russell explained that many local leaders don’t feel that they can pass such radical laws “because it requires some heavy lifting when it comes to public policy because political allies, legal and legislative resources are in short supply.” However, he explained, “this is where the organizations that are represented here today can help step up and help advance right to work on the local level.” These organizations were ALEC, Heritage, Americans for Tax Reform and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Jon Russell, director of the conservative policy organization ALEC’s new American City County Exchange, suggested that model right-to-work laws for localities could be created, and implied that ALEC could take the lead on that front. On Labor Day weekend last year, the conservative Heritage Foundation convened a panel to discuss a newly released paper by two of its scholars to push the idea that cities and counties could pass their own right-to-work laws.
And the coalition of conservative organizations promoting these questionable new measures has also morphed, as a new organization with hidden funding sources has formed to finance any possible litigation. Whereas a few months ago, there was a general understanding that the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act only permitted states and territories to pass these laws - which threaten unions’ solvency by allowing workers to receive the benefits of union representation without paying union dues - now five Kentucky counties are on track to pass local laws.
The conservative push for local right-to-work ordinances has been moving quickly recently.
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