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### 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…
Read MoreOn 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…
Read MoreOn 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…
Read More### 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…
Read More### 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…
Read More### 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…
Read More### 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…
Read More### 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…
Read More### Federally Mandated Union Monopoly Over Public-Safety Employees Dangerous For Taxpayers Union-label Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is expected soon to bring to the U.S. House floor legislation that would federally mandate union monopoly bargaining over state and local public-safety employees…
Read MoreStan Greer from the National Institute of Labor Relations Research explains the problems with Colorado’s Senate Bill 180, which would override local control and mandate collective bargaining for police officers and firefighters. SB 180 would deprive many public servants of…
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