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Right to Work Tennessee ‘Finds Itself Home to a Larger Share of the Continent’s Automotive Jobs Than Ever Before’

New report highlights strengthof Tennessee’s auto sector | Nooga.com Drive!Moving Tennessee’s Automotive Sector Up the Value Chain… Late last week, Tennessee news outlets such as the Chattanooga-based web service Nooga.com (see the first link above) reported on a new…

‘Unions Are Not Compelled to Represent Everyone in the Workplace’

SHABAZZ:Lake County liberal unlikely to derail right-to-work law In a column this week (see the link above), Indiana attorney and publisher Abdul Hakim Shabazz dissects an ongoing lawsuit brought by the bosses of suburban Chicago-based Local 150 of the International…

Nine of the Top 10 States For 2002-2012 Private-Sector Job Growth Have Right to Work Laws

Total full-time and part-time employment by industry (SA25, SA25N) Compensation of employees by industry (SA06, SA06N) Today the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its initial estimates for total 2012 private-sector, nonfarm employment in the 50 states.…

Big Labor’s Tacit Alliance With Tech Elitists Is Bizarre

Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs Four times a year, the nonpartisan Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) calculates and publishes indices ranking each of the 50 states with regard to their cost of living relative to the…

Union Bosses Monopoly-Bargaining Privileges a Means of Controlling NonMembers

Fact Sheet: Union Monopoly Bargaining Contracts Hurtful In a fact sheet now available for reading or downloading from the National Institute for Labor Relations Research web site, I explain why vast numbers of union nonmembers and reluctant union members who…

Fact Sheet: Union Monopoly Bargaining Contracts Hurtful

Union Nonmembers Are’Made Worse Off’ Monopolistic Unionism Hurts Talented Employees Economically, and Top Union Officials Seem Aware of That (Click to download Fact Sheet) By Stan Greer Because the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) empowers union bosses to represent workers…

‘Why Would I Go For Ballpoint Pens? Why Would I Not Start With the Most Valuable Assets?’

Scranton police/fire unions get $21M judgment against city; may … Scranton, a modest-sized city of roughly 76,000, but nevertheless the largest in Northeastern Pennsylvania, has been struggling for decades. Scranton’s current population is barely half of what it was at the…

‘Unionized Firms Offer Performance-Based Pay Less Than Half as Often’ as Union-Free Businesses

Why Should the Government Prevent Union Members from Earning RAISEs? Most Americans who aren’t close observers of labor-management relations assume that, whatever other faults they may have, union officials can at least be counted upon to fight consistently for higher…

‘Students Learn Less in States With Stronger Teachers’ Unions’

State Teacher Union Strength and Student Achievement While grass-roots opponents of compulsory unionism tend to focus on the simple unfairness of laws and legislation under which the individual employee’s Right to Work is contingent on forking over dues or fees…

Seventeen of the 18 Most Rapidly Graying States From 1990-2010 Lacked Right to Work Laws

TheNortheast is getting older, and it’s going to cost them In 1990, Florida had already long been established as a mecca for retirees weary of snow and ice, and, with a median age of 36.2, according to the U.S. Census…

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