Manufacturing Jobs Boom in Right to Work Tennessee

A pile of money that is laying on the ground.

News stories published this month in the New York Times and the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press highlight the astonishing growth in manufacturing employment experienced by Right To Work Tennessee since the last national recession. Times reporter Patricia Cohen focuses on the job-creating investments from abroad pouring into Chattanooga, the fourth-largest city in the state,…

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A Reign of Terror Begins in Tennessee

Having lost a representation election bid at a Volkswagen plan in Tennessee, the UAW has begun aReign of Terrorat the Spring Hill plant in Right to Work Tennessee. Already an employee has been harassed and threatened for standing up for his Right to Refrain. Glenn Taubman, attorney for the National Right to Work Legal Defense…

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Pyongyang, Tennessee?

  German union boss Detlef Wetzel of Germany’s IG Metall, compared nonunionized Southern states to North Korea. Huh? Yes. Holman Jenkins, Jr., has the story in the Wall Street Journal. North Korea? That’s the analogy Germany’s top labor leader recently applied to the American South because, in the American South, nonunion auto plants are permitted…

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Foundation Helps Auto Workers in Tennessee

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys are taking up the cause of auto workers who have been railroaded into union membership by the organizing activities taking place at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant. Chloe Morrison has the story on nooga.com Volkswagen employees have been relatively quiet lately on the issue of Volkswagen unionization, but…

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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 analysis issued by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution (second link) regarding the Volunteer State’s remarkably…

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Tennessee helps lead resurgence in U.S. manufacturing jobs

Right to Work state Tennessee is a bright star in the economic recovery during the first quarter of 2013. G. Chambers Williams, III has the story in the tennessean.com. Tennessee was among the leaders in U.S. manufacturing resurgence during the first quarter of 2013, with a nearly 5 percent gain in jobs over the same…

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Tennessee’s Right to Work Law Makes it a Good Bet for Business

Bill Hagarty writes about Tennessee’s Right to Work and other freedoms for both workers and businesses has boosted its place in the global market, as well as being the eighth state in recent job growth.  Other states should sit up and take notice.   Tennessee as a state benefits from having one of the lowest debt…

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