Showing posts with label 1976. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1976. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Right to Work at 34

Louisiana was the last southern state to pass a Right to Work law. It happened in 1976, shortly before I came to New Orleans for my first job as an attorney. Those were very different and very trying times as noted by Jim Beam, a reporter in Lake Charles who recounts the violence that led to its passage.