Can Autoworkers Union Bosses Really Kick the Job-Killing Habit? Don’t Bet On It!

UAW seeks toehold in South with Tennessee Volkswagen plan Writing in George Mason University’s Journal of Labor Research back in 1986, economist Morgan Reynolds accused top bosses of the United Autoworkers (UAW) union of “consciously exporting American jobs.”  What Reynolds meant is that, by refusing to renegotiate productivity-quashing work rules and rigid, one-size-fits-all salary structures that…

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Seven Top-Ranking States For Cost of Living-Adjusted Disposable Income in 2012 All Have Right to Work Laws

Tell Albany: It’s Time to Raise New York’s Minimum Wage | Raise … Personal income, per capita personal income, disposable personal income, and population (SA1-3, SA51-53) Cost of Living 4th Quarter 2012 During their successful push early this year for a minimum wage hike in the Empire State, Big Labor and its allies repeatedly invoked New York’s extraordinarily high…

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