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. New and revised data released by the U.S. Commerce Department March 27 (see the link above) demonstrate, for the umpteenth time, just how absurd this claim is.…

From 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 above), Michael Barone acknowledges that, of course, “it’s still possible to live a comfortable and productive life in a city that’s not growing.” Nevertheless, a…

Right 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 that private-sector payroll employment in Right to Work states grew by 6.4% from 2002 to 2012, an increase 16 times as great as the paltry…

NILRR 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 “America’s Private Sector Labor Unions Have Always Been in Decline”. He notes: [P]rivate sector labor unions have been in decline in the United States pretty…

No 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 total 2012 private-sector payroll employment in the 50 states. The BLS simultaneously released other an array of other jobs data for 2012 and revised data…

Forced 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 link above) is full of interesting data and observations, but the section regarding the rise of high-tech industries in the Rocky Mountain states is especially…

Forced-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 where these practices have been curtailed by Act 10, which the Legislature adopted two years ago, are currently gloating about a state court decision issued…

NILRR 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 three so-called recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while Congress was not in recess. In the wake of the president’s unprecedented action, efforts…

Another 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 Work Law is finally implemented this month. The proposition was the same as the Wayne State Univeristy and the Taylor School District one: give us…

Perez’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 general Thomas Perez to be secretary of labor merits extremely close scrutiny by senators from both parties, for several concerns about Perez’s record as head…