Warren County set to pass local right-to-work law

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Warren County could become the first local government in the country to pass a law making it illegal for companies to require its employees to join a labor union.

The Warren County Fiscal Court is scheduled to vote on a local right-to-work ordinance during its Friday meeting. Twenty-four states have passed right-to-work laws. But efforts to do that in Kentucky have been blocked by Democrats in the state House of Representatives.

That’s why Warren County leaders are trying to pass their own version. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation says no other local governments have right-to-work laws. Similar efforts in the 1960s and 1980s were overturned by the courts.

Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway is expected to issue an opinion soon on whether local governments have the authority to pass such laws.

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