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State Monopoly-Bargaining Laws Closely Correlated With Higher Taxes

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For many years, observers of American public policy-making have recognized that Big Labor officials, and especially the bosses of government-sector unions, are our country’s most powerful lobby for Tax-and-Spend politics. In an early 2011 Wall Street Journal op-ed, for example, Steven Malanga of the Manhattan Institute pointed to union…(Read More)

Stampede to Leave Forced-Dues California Spikes Moving Costs

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People abandoning LA pay a “huge premium” for U-Haul trucks “leaving California” (the largest-population state without Right to Work protections for employees) “for Texas” (the largest-population Right to Work state). On the flip-side, should Texans want to go West, there is a “huge discount for trucks leaving Texas for California,” according…(Read More)

Business Decisionmakers Lopsidedly Prefer to Hire in Right to Work States

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As seasoned supporters of the Right to Work cause already know, there is a mountain of evidence indicating that laws and legislation authorizing and promoting compulsory union financial support as a job condition are economically harmful. One particularly powerful example is the survey of CEOs from around the country that Chief Executive magazine annually conducts…(Read More)

Labor Relations Research

Big Labor the Number One Special Interest Spent $2 Billion on Elections

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To the tune of $2 Billion, Big Labor Bosses used money, primarily from forced-dues union treasuries in their control, to influence the 2017-2018 Elections. Big Labor’s 2018 Election Cycle by the Numbers Download the report. Union Treasury Self-Reported “Political” Disbursements (Source: U.S. Department of Labor) — $1,369,936,480Total Disclosed…(Read More)