Right to Work’s Wide Compensation-Growth Advantage Cuts Across Regions

On April 19, 2013, in Fact Sheets, NILRR Research, Right To Work, by NILRR Staff

(2013 NILRR Fact Sheet — Right to Work States’ Wide Compensation Growth Advantage Cuts Across Regions) Forced-Unionism States From Northeast, South and Midwest in Bottom 11 For 2002-2012 Gains For years, U.S. Commerce Department data have shown that states with Right to Work laws on the books have far faster private-sector compensation growth than states [...]

Immunity From ID Theft Laws – Another Court-Created Special Privilege For Big Labor?

On February 22, 2013, in Fact Sheets, by NILRR Staff

Court Rules Union Bosses Can Ignore Identity Theft Laws To Intimidate Employees (Click here to download Fact Sheet) Over the course of the past century, American elected officials and judges have handed to Big Labor an array of special privileges and immunities that would be unimaginable for any other type of private organization. The U.S. Congress started [...]

Right to Work States Benefit from Faster Growth and Higher Real Purchasing Power

On January 3, 2013, in Fact Sheets, NILRR Research, Right To Work, by NILRR Staff

January 2013 Update (click to download complete .pdf file of fact sheet)

Right to Work States Benefit from Faster Growth and Higher Real Purchasing Power

On January 3, 2013, in Fact Sheets, by NILRR Staff

Right to Work States Benefit from Faster Growth and Higher Real Purchasing Power January 2013 Update (click to download .pdf file of fact sheet)

Black Americans Especially Inclined to ‘Vote With Their Feet’ Against Forced Unionism

On December 28, 2012, in Fact Sheets, by NILRR Staff

By Stacy Swimp, president of the Frederick Douglass Society (click here to download pdf of Fact Sheet) In the wake of Michigan’s stunning enactment of the 24th state Right to Work law this month, diehard proponents of compulsory unionism are now mounting a desperate bid to sow racial division over such legislation, which prohibits the [...]

Does Compulsory Unionism Make You Poorer?

On November 8, 2012, in Fact Sheets, Right To Work, by NILRR Staff

Seven Lowest-Ranking States For Cost of Living-Adjusted Income Lack Right to Work Laws (Click to download Fact Sheet) Economists who wish to compare living standards among various countries routinely use purchasing power parity (PPP) in their calculations.  As its Wikipedia entry explains, PPP is “an economic theory and a technique used to determine the relative value of [...]

Forced-Unionism States Encumber Citizens With More Debt as Well as Higher Taxes

On October 16, 2012, in Fact Sheets, News Clips, Right To Work, by NILRR Staff

Total Debt as a Share of Annual Personal Income 50% Higher Than in Right to Work States (Click here to download Fact Sheet) As many observers of Organized Labor have noted, there has been an enormous shift of power within union officialdom over the past few decades.  As recently as 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected [...]