September 2013 | National Institute for Labor Relations Research

Nine of the Top 10 States For 2002-2012 Private-Sector Job Growth Have Right to Work Laws

Total full-time and part-time employment by industry (SA25, SA25N) Compensation of employees by industry (SA06, SA06N) Today the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its initial estimates…

Big Labor’s Tacit Alliance With Tech Elitists Is Bizarre

Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs Four times a year, the nonpartisan Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) calculates and publishes indices ranking each of the 50 states…

Union Bosses Monopoly-Bargaining Privileges a Means of Controlling NonMembers

Fact Sheet: Union Monopoly Bargaining Contracts Hurtful In a fact sheet now available for reading or downloading from the National Institute for Labor Relations Research web site, I explain why…

Fact Sheet: Union Monopoly Bargaining Contracts Hurtful

Union Nonmembers Are ‘Made Worse Off’ Monopolistic Unionism Hurts Talented Employees Economically, and Top Union Officials Seem Aware of That (Click to download Fact Sheet) By Stan Greer Because the National…

‘Why Would I Go For Ballpoint Pens? Why Would I Not Start With the Most Valuable Assets?’

Scranton police/fire unions get $21M judgment against city; may … Scranton, a modest-sized city of roughly 76,000, but nevertheless the largest in Northeastern Pennsylvania, has been struggling for decades. Scranton’s current…

‘Unionized Firms Offer Performance-Based Pay Less Than Half as Often’ as Union-Free Businesses

Why Should the Government Prevent Union Members from Earning RAISEs? Most Americans who aren’t close observers of labor-management relations assume that, whatever other faults they may have, union officials can…

‘Students Learn Less in States With Stronger Teachers’ Unions’

State Teacher Union Strength and Student Achievement While grass-roots opponents of compulsory unionism tend to focus on the simple unfairness of laws and legislation under which the individual employee’s Right…

Seventeen of the 18 Most Rapidly Graying States From 1990-2010 Lacked Right to Work Laws

The Northeast is getting older, and it’s going to cost them In 1990, Florida had already long been established as a mecca for retirees weary of snow and ice, and, with…

Pending Supreme Court Case ‘Challenges President Obama’s Right to Make Up His Own Rules’

Rex Obama and SCOTUS’ Labor Pains : The Freeman : Foundation … It seems incredible that two and a quarter centuries after the Constitution was ratified, it is falling upon the U.S.…

Union Boss-Negotiated Pension Plans Are a Bad Deal For Most Teachers

Teacher pensions are a bad deal for teachers – Public Sector Inc … A new study prepared for the Manhattan Institute (MI) by Marcus Winters and Josh McGee, and summarized in a…