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### Study prepared for union front group uses twisted facts and logic to dupe media and promote anti-worker legislation designed to stifle worker choice Washington, DC. (January 6, 2006) – The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) has just…
Read More### Academic Apologists For Top-Down Organizing Ignore Basic Facts, Twist Logic Recently, AFL-CIO agents across America have been breathlessly promoting a study of union organizing campaigns issued by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Center for Urban Economic Development. The…
Read MoreIt’s hard to put a positive spin on Michigan’s economic track record in recent years, or on the state’s prospects for the future assuming no significant change in current policies. Between 1994 and 2004, Michigan ranked dead last among the…
Read MoreStan Greer, senior research associate for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, appears on NPR’s News & Notes with Ed Gordon to discuss labor issues in light of the Labor Day holiday, and the thousands left jobless in the…
Read MoreRecently released U.S. Census Bureau data show that, as of 2003, more than two million young people aged 25 to 34 were missing in the 28 states that do not have Right to Work laws barring the exaction of compulsory…
Read MoreBanning forced union dues spurs productivity growth and weakens rationale for ‘outsourcing.’ The record indicates that, by adopting national Right to Work legislation that is now pending (as H.R. 500 and S. 370) in both the U.S. House and Senate,…
Read MoreProject labor agreements, or PLAs, have been around since the 1930s. But they have become an increasingly common means for unions to exercise, directly or indirectly, monopoly power over labor markets since the U.S. Supreme Court gave them the green…
Read MoreOn a Saturday edition of CNN’s heavily watched Capital Gang in January 1997, syndicated columnists Robert Novak and Mark Shields, the show’s cohosts, were discussing the biggest political news item of the week: the unexpected conclusion of the race for…
Read MoreBarry W. Poulson, Ph.D. Professor of Economics University of Colorado, Boulder Twenty-two states now have Right to Work laws. In these states employees do not have to financially support a union with monopoly bargaining privileges at their work place in…
Read MoreA study prepared for the NILRR by Carl F. Horowitz Toxic Grains.pdf 584.4 KB
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