text: Reporter David Groves of the Washington State Stand said, “The city-by-city campaign against unions mirrors the new strategy of ALEC . . . to attack unions at the city and local level.”
  Groves goes on to note: “The conservative Heritage Foundation just released a report urging that localities should “experiment” with local right-to-work ordinances in an attempt to set up legal challenges that could go all the way to the corporate-friendly U.S. Supreme Court.
  It seems too that other Republican-controlled municipalities are already heeding the Heritage Foundation’s urging:
  • In Fort Wayne, Indiana, the city council’s Republican supermajority pushed through a series of bills—including its very own local right-to-work law—that make it far more difficult for unions to represent government employees.
  • In Illinois, Bruce Rauner, Republican candidate for governor, cites the creation of local right-to-work zones as one of his top policy priorities.