by digby
In case anyone’s getting it in their heads that because Trump is a cretinous barbarian, Cruz would be better, keep in mind that Ted Cruz is a far right extremist who will turn this country into the dystopian hellhole he and Donald Trump say it already is.
There are hundreds of ways in which he pledges to do that, this is just one of them:
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said during a radio interview Thursday that he supports national “right-to-work” legislation, a type of anti-labor law that Wisconsin passed last year in an effort to cripple the state’s unions.
The Texas senator, who is currently leading in the Wisconsin polls, said in an interview on WTMJ radio in Milwaukee that such right-to-work laws are a “fundamental right,” according to the Associated Press. Right-to-work laws are designed to severely weaken unions by forcing them to provide services without payment from workers.
Cruz said during the interview that supporting a right-to-work law will show that government “sides with the working men and women of this country.” He added that Wisconsin’s law restricting unions “is exactly what we need to do in Washington.”
Yes, the Republicans have duped their people into believing that busting unions is just what’s needed to give the working men and women of this country a better deal.
Just FYI: the California $15.00 an hour minimum wage hike was accomplished through the efforts of the SEIU and activists working together for the benefit of all low wage workers, not just the union.