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Tax-Paying Families Are Fleeing Forced-Unionism States

### 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…

Negative Employment Growth Since November 2001

### 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…

Union Monopoly Linked to Lower Purchasing Power

### 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…

Governors’ Bi-Partisan Message to Congress: Don’t Federalize Public-Safety Union Monopoly

### 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…

‘Card-Check’ Forced Unionism Threatens Job-Based Private Health Insurance

### 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…

Will Big Labor Congress Prime the Pump For More State and Local Tax Hikes?

### 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…

Senate Bill 180: Local Control, Taxpayers, Public Safety Workers’ Rights at Risk

Stan 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…

Right to Work’s Wide Job-Growth Advantage Cuts Across Regions

### Western, Southern and Midwestern States Rank in Top Eight For 2003-2008 Employment Gains For many years, U.S. Labor Department data have shown that states with Right to Work laws on the books have far faster private-sector job growth than…

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Forced-Dues States Suffering From Massive ‘Brain Drain’

Federally-sanctioned forced union dues have predictable economic consequences. Among them are Big Labor’s use of rigid work rules and cultivation of the “hate the boss” mentality to cement its power over employees. Right to Work laws, now on the books…

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