Right to Work Is right for Missouri workers. The purpose and impact of the law are straightforward and fair. It promotes the principle that workers deserve the freedom to choose how to spend their hard-earned pay.

Yet Big Labor and other detractors give workers individual freedom to fight it and spread misinformation about it. Right-to-work laws do not ban or undermine unions. Enacting #PropA in Missouri did not prohibit any worker from voluntarily joining a union or paying full-fledged dues. Rather, it provided an escape hatch for individuals who do not value union representation. 

Most of the #Democratic Presidential candidates of the 2020 election supported the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would ban the law "Right-to-Work." The law currently prevents unions and employers from mandating union memberships as a condition of employment. Evidence shows that this Act is misguided; the law increases worker satisfaction, especially among union workers. Right-to-work laws reduce the financial benefit from organizing workplaces, where unions have limited support. 

In this study, Economist Christos Makridis finds that workers report greater life satisfaction after their state becomes a right-to-work state. He used the data on self-reported life satisfaction from daily Gallup polls and state economic data to identify how worker satisfaction fluctuated due to state right-to-work laws between 2008 and 2017. The study finds the enactment of a right-to-work law increased self-reported current life satisfaction, expected future life satisfaction, and sentiments about current and future economic activity among workers.

Christos Makridis further explained in his study that right-to-work laws increase workers' life satisfaction. One of the potential income effects of "free-riding." When workers don't have to pay dues to be union members in right-to-work states, they can use the extra money to buy other things without impacting their union status.

Right-to-work laws improve employer-employee relationships and encourage unions to better serve their members. The study finds that adopting a right-to-work law is associated with an increase in the probability that a worker reports that their boss treats them like a partner and creates an open and trusting work environment.

So the question arises, if right-to-work laws make workers better off, why do many politicians oppose them? Maybe right-to-work laws harm their political prospects. One  Study finds that right-to-work laws reduce Democratic Presidential vote shares and political contributions from organized labor while also moving state policy in a more conservative direction. It could be that opposition to right-to-work is more politically motivated than intended to improve employee satisfaction for workers.