Archive for March 2013
Rising Compensation For Public Servants Relies on a Growing Private Sector
Compensation of employees by industry (SA06, SA06N) One of many canards hurled against Right to Work states by Big Labor apologists is that they starve their public sectors. Â New and…
Read MoreFrom 2002-2012, Real Private-Sector Compensation Growth in Right to Work States Was Nearly Thrice as Great as in Forced-Unionism States
New Census Data Show People Go Where the Money Is In a Sunday column for the Washington Examiner analyzing which regions of the U.S. are growing the fastest (see the link…
Read MoreRight to Work States Have Better Job Climates For Public- as Well as Private-Sector Employees
Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment … Late last week I pointed out here that U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data reported and updated on March 18 show…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 22, 2013
Private sector union decline dates to the late-50s Washington Examiner Online, March 21, 2013 Slate columnist Matt Yglesias posted the above chart yesterday as part of a post arguing that …
Read MoreNo Matter How You Measure Jobs and Incomes, They’re Growing Faster in Right to Work States
State and Area Employment, Hours, and Earnings : Multi-Screen … State Annual Personal Income & Employment Early this week, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its estimates for…
Read MoreForced Unionism Helps Keep Economically Disastrous Environmental Policies Entrenched in California
AMERICA’S GROWTH CORRIDORS: The Key to National Revival A recent report for the Manhattan Institute by economic demographer Joel Kotkin on what he calls America’s “economic growth corridors” (see the…
Read MoreForced-Unionism Advocates Shouldn’t Gloat Too Much Over This Week’s Wisconsin Court Ruling
Explaining the Latest Act 10 Court Action – Right Wisconsin … Big Labor bosses and other proponents of reinstating compulsory union dues and fees and wide-ranging union monopoly bargaining in Wisconsin government workplaces…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 15, 2013
H.R. 1120, the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee, March 13, 2013 Links to Foundation Story In January 2012, President Obama installed…
Read MoreAnother End Run Against Michigan Right To Work Averted
Saginaw County government employee union officials were defeated by County Commissioners in their desperate attempt to avoid the expansive reduction in membership and forced dues expected when Michigan’s Right to…
Read MorePerez’s Expected Nomination to Secretary of Labor Demands Scrutiny
Former NLRB member Peter Kirsanow examines the qualifications of the Obama Administrations’ Secretary of Labor nominee. Here’s the story on National Review Online. President Obama’s expected nomination of assistant attorney…
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