Archive for April 2013
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…
Read MoreRecord Indicates Right to Work Law Would Economically Benefit Missouri Employees, Businesses
House Makes History Regarding Right To Work Legislation As the account linked above shows, legislators in the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City are now passionately debating whether Show Me State employees and employers would benefit from enactment of a Right to Work law. For the first time in decades, Right to Work is on the table…
Read MoreIn 2013, ‘Tax Freedom Day’ Is Coming 13 Days Sooner in Right to Work States Than in Forced-Unionism States
Tax Freedom Day Arrives on April 18, 2013,Five Days Later than… Last week, the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation announced its estimate that “Tax Freedom Day” this year will occur on April 18, five days later than in 2012. (The Tax Foundation’s entire published analysis is available at the link above.) As the Tax Foundation…
Read MoreSeven 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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