The right to be fired

In 1949, as I was packing to leave home after graduation, my dad said, “There are a couple of things I’d like you to remember as you go through life: (1) Never be a ‘scab’ and (2) never vote Republican.” I believe I’ve followed that advice pretty well.

Ken Campbell’s opinion in the Feb. 18 S-R seemed somewhat high-handed. He begins about propaganda and hypocrisy and mentions unions fighting tooth and nail against “right to work” and crossing a union picket line (scabs).

Ken’s words “propaganda” and “hypocrisy” should have been addressed against the “right to work” law. Like so many conservative programs, the name is impressive, but reality sucks. Do you think the people of Idaho would have approved that bill if it had been properly named, “The right to fire anyone at any time for any reason or no reason”?

Big business couldn’t kill the unions with goons and clubs so they used propaganda, hypocrisy and money. Thus, gullible voters approved the “right to work” law.

It can’t be denied that union workers created the middle class in our country. The right to work law in Idaho brought on the demise of its middle class.

Roger J. Campbell

Sandpoint