Research and Analysis
Research and analysis on labor relations, unions, economy, and employees. Facts, data, statistics, papers, and more.
None of the 12 States With the Greatest Total Public Debt Per Capita Has a Right to Work Law
For several years now, the nonpartisan taxpayer watchdog group State Budget Solutions (SBS) has been...
Freedom to Bankroll or Not Bankroll a Union ‘Protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution’
As has been widely reported in media coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 30...
Memo to Justice Kagan: Monopoly Bargaining Alone Puts Individual Employee ‘Under Powerful Compulsion’ to Join a Union
Blogging July 2 over at the National Right to Work Committee web site, I discussed...
Right to Work States Now Dominate U.S. Automotive Manufacturing
Though the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis has yet to issue its estimates...
First Amendment Protects a Public Servant’s Freedom Not to Join — a Labor Union
Forty-five years ago this February, a federal court overturned North Carolina statutory provisions restricting municipal...
States With ‘Exceptional Patterns of Out-Migration’ Are Overwhelmingly Forced-Unionism
Last week, Tax Foundation blogger Lyman Stone contributed an informative five-part series on the economic...
By and Large, Forced-Unionism States Tax More Because They Spend More
In an April 20 post, I referenced data from the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation and...
In Forced-Unionism States, State and Local Taxes Consume a 25% Higher Share of Personal Income Than in Right to Work States
Taken in conjunction with personal income data supplied by the U.S. Commerce Department, data from...
