Right-to-Work Law Constitutional, Kentucky High Court Rules

Kentucky’s right-to-work law has passed constitutional muster with the state’s supreme court, serving a blow to a lawsuit brought by local unions.

“The legislature clearly established a rational basis for the Act: to promote economic development, to promote job growth, and to remove Kentucky’s economic disadvantages in competing with neighboring states,” the court said.

Right-to-work laws prohibit agreements between employers and unions that require all of a business’ workers to belong to a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment. Such laws are authorized under federal law, so the union’s challenge to the Kentucky Right to ...