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Welfare Dependency Far Lower in Right to Work States

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently released data reporting the average number of residents in each of the 50 states who over the course of the 2014…

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Laborers have no say in their contract U-T SanDiego.com, February 4, 2015 Farm laborers at one of the nation’s largest fruit farms, Gerawan Farming, have been pleading with the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board – an agency formed, ironically, to…

‘It’s So Old-Fashioned, It’s A Brand New Idea’   

(National Institute for Labor Relations ResearchFact Sheet) Recent State Election Returns Indicate Support For Right to Work Is an Increasingly Valuable Political Asset By Stan Greer On June 5, 2012, Badger State Republican Scott Walker became the first governor in…

Transition From Renter to Homeowner Far Less Difficult in Right to Work States

According to a survey conducted in the 20 largest U.S. housing markets in early 2014, 10% of America’s 42 million would like to buy a home within the next 12 months. (See the first link below for more information.) And…

Lawmakers Should Respect Raisin Farmers’, and Workers’, Economic Liberty

During the Great Depression, the U.S. Congress enacted many laws intended to foster economic recovery by restricting marketplace competition. Today, there is a wide consensus among historians, economists, and political scientists, including many who support the New Deal on the…

Unions Fail to File in Time, Lose Representation

Two Wisconsin unions failed to file a timely petition to represent several government employees, as required by Act 10. TheWisconsin Public Relations Commission is sticking to its guns, and the law. Molly Williams has the story in Courthouse News. The…

NILRR News Clips January 19, 2015

Public Unions vs. the Public Wall Street Journal Online, January 15, 2015 The facts: Public-sector unions are not underdogs. . . As Mr. DiSalvo shows, public-sector unions are also rich. Taken together, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually…

Best Available Evidence Indicates Right to Work Laws Foster Faster Growth in Employee Compensation

As I noted in a post on this web site last week, the editors of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s (MJS) editorial page admitthat state Right to Work laws protect employees’ “freedom to choose whether to be in a union.” But judging…

Ironworkers Boss Sanctioned Vandalism

FBI wiretaps reveal Ironworker boss Joseph Dougherty believed there were no limits to what could be done to stop employers from using nonunion workers. Joseph A. Slobodzian has the story on philly.com. Shortly after 10 a.m. on Nov. 5, 2013,…

Michigan Justices Drill UAW Attorney

Michigan Supreme Court justices closely question a United Auto Workers (UAW) labor attorney’s challenge to the Right to Work Law. Chad Livengood has the story in The Detroit News. Republican-backed Supreme Court justices drilled a labor union attorney during a…

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