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Forced-Unionism Expansion Would Hurt Young Employees the Most

### Low Union-Monopoly States Furnish ‘Safety Valve’ For Americans Aged 25-34 Who Can’t Find Decent Job Opportunities in High Union-Monopoly States, Census Bureau Data Show The newly published 2010 edition of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United…

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Institute Makes Record of U.S. Department of Energy Employees’ Executive Order 13490 Pledges and Waivers Available to the Public

On February 26, 2010 the National Institute for Labor Relations Research received, as a donation, documents partially fulfilling a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that had been made by the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation to the…

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Big Labor’s Bread and Butter

### Relentless Growth of Government Payrolls Is Good News For Union Bosses, But Will State and Local Taxpayers Keep Picking up the Tab? In mid-December, two of America’s best known labor economists, Drs. Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson, released their…

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Institute Makes Information Pertaining to Record of Congressional Military Travel Requests by Congress Available to the Public

On January 5, 2010 the National Institute for Labor Relations Research received, as a donation, documents partially fulfilling a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that had been made by the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation to the…

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Institute Makes Information Pertaining to Record of Obama Labor Department Nominee Available to the Public

On December 10 the National Institute for Labor Relations Research received, as a donation, documents partially fulfilling a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request that had been made by the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation to the New…

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Tax-Paying Families Are Fleeing Forced-Unionism States

### Since 2000, a Net Total of 1.63 Million Federal Tax Filers Have Escaped to Right to Work States Early this year, economist Mark Perry posted a table (which had originally appeared in the National Right to Work Newsletter) on…

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Negative Employment Growth Since November 2001

### High-Unionization States Are Suffering a ‘Lost Decade,’ But, Even With Recent Setbacks, Low-Unionization States Have Gained Nearly 1.5 Million Private-Sector Jobs Since Last Recession Early this month, BusinessWeek Economics Editor Michael Mandel bemoaned the fact that U.S. private-sector employment…

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Union Monopoly Linked to Lower Purchasing Power

### Cost of Living-Adjusted Earnings and Disposable Incomes Are Highest in Least-Unionized States United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected, as soon as next month, to bring to the Senate floor legislation designed to help Organized Labor…

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Governors’ Bi-Partisan Message to Congress: Don’t Federalize Public-Safety Union Monopoly

### State Executives’ Successful 2009 Vetoes of Big Labor Power Grabs Under Attack in U.S. Capitol Two years ago this month, the U.S. House of Representatives rubber-stamped Congressman Dale Kildee’s (D-Mich.) cynically mislabeled “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act.†This Big…

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‘Card-Check’ Forced Unionism Threatens Job-Based Private Health Insurance

### In Least-Unionized States, Ranks of Insured Have Increased by Nearly Three Million Since 1999 Critics of the major government-run health-care proposals now being hammered out by congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration charge they would destroy private employers’ ability…

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