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Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published its latest set of comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states. (See the link below.) MERIC’s new indices estimate the average annual cost of living in 2013 for…
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The workers at Volkswagen, Chattanooga, have spoken. Gabe Nelson has the story in Automotive News. Workers at Volkswagen AG’s plant here voted to reject UAW representation, dealing a devastating loss to a union that saw the Tennessee factory as its…
Tennessee taxpayers have poured more than a half-billion dollars in incentives into the Volkswagen plant. Matt Patterson tells the story in the Tenneseean.com. In fact, the more than a half-billion dollars in subsidies that the company received to come to…
In a 2010 article for the International Journal of Epidemiology, Donna Spiegelman of the Harvard School of Public Health observed: The adage ‘correlation is not causation’ has been repeated so often that another salient feature of the relationship of correlation…
Operating Engineers’ unionbossthreatensa nonunion conractor who questions the benefit of using union labor. Michael J. Caggiano was also convicted of misdemeanor assault onnonunion contractor Timothy Such, whose business is now defunct. Phil Fairbanks has the story in The Buffalo News.…
In Harris v Quinn, a potentially landmark federal lawsuit, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys are representing, free of charge, a group of Illinois home care providers who do not believe they should be forced to join or…
Worker Advocate Reacts to Volkswagen’s Request for NLRB Union Election www.nrtw.org, February 3, 2014 Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement after the announcement today that Volkswagen America has petitioned the National Labor…