# National Institute for Labor Relations \| NILRR \- Research, News, and Facts: Research for you: FACTS about union privileges vs\. employee rights\.

> Learn how excessive regulations affect workers at the National Institute of Labor Relations Research in Springfield, VA\.

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## Pages
- [Home](https://nilrr.org/)
- [William B\. Ruggles Journalism Scholarship Application](https://nilrr.org/resources/online-ruggles-journalism-scholarship-application)
- [Applegate\-Jackson\-Parks Future Teacher Scholarship Application](https://nilrr.org/resources/applegate-teacher-scholarship-application)
- [Right To Work Essay Contest](https://nilrr.org/resources/right-to-work-contest)
- [U\.S\. DOL Criminal and Civil Enforcement Actions](https://nilrr.org/labor-relations-research/u-s-dol-criminal-and-civil-enforcement-actions)

## Posts
- [Organized Labor’s Violent Privilege: The Supreme Court Loophole Shielding Union Officials from Prosecution ](https://nilrr.org/organized-labors-violent-privilege-the-supreme-court-loophole-shielding-union-officials-from-prosecution)
- [How the ILA Union Bosses Shut Down South Carolina’s Brand\-New, Taxpayer\-Funded Hugh K\. Leatherman Sr\. Terminal for Years](https://nilrr.org/how-the-ila-shut-down-south-carolinas-brand-new-taxpayer-funded-hugh-k-leatherman-sr-terminal-for-years-a-textbook-example-of-nlra-monopoly-control-and-forced-union-dues): End Big Labor Union Bosses Exemptions form U\.S\. Laws: South Carolina Port Idled Over 2 Years Thanks to Big Labor Union Bosses’ Exemptions from U\.S\. Laws \(Charleston, S\.C\.  Leatherman Terminal\)
- [Unions at a Crossroads: New Data Confirms a Quarter Century of Decline—and Points the Way](https://nilrr.org/unions-at-a-crossroads-new-data-confirms-a-quarter-century-of-decline-and-points-the-way): Perhaps most compelling is the right\-to\-work comparison\. States that protect workers’ freedom to choose whether to join or pay a union have added 14 million private\-sector jobs since 2000—a 27 percent gain—versus just 8\.5 million jobs \(14\.7 percent\) in forced\-unionism states\.
- [Right to Work Benefits Fact Sheet Winter 2026](https://nilrr.org/right-to-work-benefits-fact-sheet-winter-2026)
- [Congress Sides with Union Bosses to Undermine Trump's Executive Order on Federal Workforce Control](https://nilrr.org/congress-sides-with-union-bosses-to-undermine-trumps-executive-order-on-federal-workforce-control)

## Categories
- [Economy](https://nilrr.org/https:/nilrr.org/right-to-work-states/economy)
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- [Job Growth](https://nilrr.org/https:/nilrr.org/right-to-work-states/economy/job-growth)
- [News](https://nilrr.org/https:/nilrr.org/right-to-work-states/news)
- [South Carolina](https://nilrr.org/https:/nilrr.org/right-to-work-states/right-to-work-states-economic-news/south-carolina)

## Tags
- [Right to Work](https://nilrr.org/%state%/right-to-work-2)
- [Economic Growth in Right to Work States](https://nilrr.org/%state%/economic-growth-in-right-to-work-states)
- [Right to Work States](https://nilrr.org/%state%/right-to-work-states)
- [Economy](https://nilrr.org/%state%/economy)
- [Economic Growth](https://nilrr.org/%state%/economic-growth)

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