On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:59:56 -0500, Harry wrote:

thunder wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:40:57 -0800, nom=de=plume wrote:


And, it's never an either/or situation. There are typically union and
non-union shops. So, your statement about if they don't like the wage,
they can go somewhere else doesn't necessarily apply. There might be
other non-union shops, but there might not be.

Let's not forget the 22 "Right to work" states.

That's the "22 right-to-work-for-less" states.

Yup, the map would seem to correspond to the lower wage states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Right_to_work.svg