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The ideals of an open society require the protection of freedom of choice in personal, political and economic relationships. Federal policies that force employees to pay dues or fees to a union as a condition of employment directly restrict the…
A recent paper by Jeff Vincent, research director of the Division of Labor Studies at Indiana University, grossly misrepresents the facts about Right to Work laws and the economic and moral arguments that have been made in support of enacting…
### Study prepared for union front group uses twisted facts and logic to dupe media and promote anti-worker legislation designed to stifle worker choice Washington, DC. (January 6, 2006) – The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) has just…
### Academic Apologists For Top-Down Organizing Ignore Basic Facts, Twist Logic Recently, AFL-CIO agents across America have been breathlessly promoting a study of union organizing campaigns issued by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Center for Urban Economic Development. The…
It’s hard to put a positive spin on Michigan’s economic track record in recent years, or on the state’s prospects for the future assuming no significant change in current policies. Between 1994 and 2004, Michigan ranked dead last among the…
Stan Greer, senior research associate for the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, appears on NPR’s News & Notes with Ed Gordon to discuss labor issues in light of the Labor Day holiday, and the thousands left jobless in the…
Recently released U.S. Census Bureau data show that, as of 2003, more than two million young people aged 25 to 34 were missing in the 28 states that do not have Right to Work laws barring the exaction of compulsory…
Banning forced union dues spurs productivity growth and weakens rationale for ‘outsourcing.’ The record indicates that, by adopting national Right to Work legislation that is now pending (as H.R. 500 and S. 370) in both the U.S. House and Senate,…
Project labor agreements, or PLAs, have been around since the 1930s. But they have become an increasingly common means for unions to exercise, directly or indirectly, monopoly power over labor markets since the U.S. Supreme Court gave them the green…
On a Saturday edition of CNN’s heavily watched Capital Gang in January 1997, syndicated columnists Robert Novak and Mark Shields, the show’s cohosts, were discussing the biggest political news item of the week: the unexpected conclusion of the race for…