Issue: Idaho’s union rate among the lowest: Barely 5 percent of workers represented by organized labor/Becky Kramer, Spokesman-Review
Additional Info: “Idaho is one of 21 states with a right-to-work law. In Washington, which doesn’t have the law, 19 percent of the work force belongs to a union. Idaho’s right-to-work law dates to 1985, when the Republican-controlled Legislature approved it over the veto of then-Democratic Gov. John Evans. State voters ratified the law the following year. AFL-CIO Idaho is making a third attempt to overturn the law this year. (It) is trying to gather enough signatures to put a right-to-work referendum on the November ballot.”
Question: Do you think Idaho is ready to overturn the Right to Work law?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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