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Real GDP Even before the Great Recession of 2008-2009 brought a long period of low national unemployment rates in the U.S. to an abrupt end, concerns about a secular employment decline in the manufacturing sector were widespread. However, as…
Gross Domestic Product by State On June 6, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis reported 2012 data for annual gross domestic product (GDP) in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, plus revised data for…
TimHudakTakes a Page Out of the U.S. Labour Policy Playbook As a forthcoming fact sheet contributed to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Stacy Swimp, president and CFO of the Flint, Mich.-based Frederick Douglass Society reminds us, race-based…
The Wall Street Journal’s Review and Outlook section discusses the effect of the NLRB’s power and arrogance. Cablevision is petitioning the D.C. Circuit to issue a writ of mandamus–a direct court order–prohibiting the NLRB from proceeding with unfair-labor-practice complaints against…
NILRR FACT SHEET May 2013 Right to Work States Benefit From Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power – May 2013 Update SHERK: A union of one Washington Times Online, May 24, 2013 The latest example is Minnesota. The…
Right to Work States Faster Growth, Higher Purchasing Power This week, the National Institute for Labor Relations Research published the spring 2013 edition of an analysis comparing Right to Work and forced-unionism states according to 11 different economic and…
(click to download fact sheet) By Stacy Swimp As I have already contended in a number of different forums, the monopolistic type of unionism now authorized and promoted by federal labor policy for more than three quarters of a century…
The Beacon Hill Institute’s latest report,“Without cost saving reforms, public sector unions pose future liability crisis for states,” contains some shocking figures about the cost governments incur when they allow government employee unions free rein with monopoly bargaining. …
James Sherk, in the Washington Times, makes excellent points about the political power unions possess, passing a law that would allow self-employed workers to unionize. That’s correct – self-employed daycare workers. Desperate times call for desperate measures, but…