White House summit is muzzle, not megaphone, of worker voice

Published October 7, 2015 4:02am ET



Wednesday’s White House Summit on Worker Voice is supposed to determine how American employees can amplify their voices in the workplace, the lack of which is said to be a reason for the country’s ongoing economic stagnation.

It’s a nice sentiment, but yet another opportunity for union bosses to dine at the White House — where they will surely prescribe more unionization as the solution to our country’s problems — will do nothing to help American employees. Indeed, there is little (if any) correlation between unionization rates and wage growth. So-called “right-to-work” states, which have comparatively low unionization rates, have seen significantly faster growth in recent years than their forced-unionization counterparts.

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