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On February 26, 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…
### 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…
On 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…
On 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…
### 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…
### 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…
### 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…
### 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…
### 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…
### 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…