Posts Tagged ‘California’
Californian proclaims: Welcome Texans
California appears open for business. That is, open for Right to Work states to come in and court businesses to relocate in their states. Steve Malanga has the story publicsectorinc.com. We’ve written before about the efforts of Texas Gov. Rick Perry to lure California businesses to his state, which elicited a scatological response from Gov.…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips August 16, 2013
Job, Income Data Indicate Right to Work Laws Economically Beneficial National Institute for Labor Relations Research Right to Work Fact Sheet, August 13, 2013 As of the end of 2012, 22 states had Right to Work laws on the books prohibiting the termination of employees for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted…
Read MoreUnion Officials Perpetuate Misinformation
Larry Sand does a great job exposing the fallacy of the union officials’ view of Right to Work in unionwatch.org. The unions, with all their pro-worker chatter, hate the fact that in some places, employees actually have a choice whether to join or not. As Stan Greer, senior research associate for the National Institute for…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips May 10, 2013
Kansas outperforms ranking on employment Topeka Capital Journal Online, May 4, 2013 Factors considered in the report are the state’s highest personal income tax rate, highest corporate income tax rate, personal income tax progressivity (meaning how much more higher-income taxpayers pay than low-income ones), property tax burden, sales tax burden, whether the state…
Read MoreTop 10 Business States Are Right to Work States; Bottom 3 Forced Unionism States
Chief Executive Magazine’s survey of CEO’s brought some good, but not necessarily new news. The top 10 states for business are Right to Work states, and 3 of the bottom 10 are forced-dues states. While Michigan ranks near the bottom, its Right to Work Law has only been in effect for little over a month. Charlie…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips April 26, 2013
New Twinkie Maker Shuns Union Labor Wall Street Journal Online, April 25, 2013 Chief Executive C. Dean Metropoulos said the company will pump $60 million in capital investments into the plants between now and September and aims to hire at least 1,500 workers. But they won’t be represented by unions, including the one whose nationwide…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 22, 2013
Private sector union decline dates to the late-50s Washington Examiner Online, March 21, 2013 Slate columnist Matt Yglesias posted the above chart yesterday as part of a post arguing that “America’s Private Sector Labor Unions Have Always Been in Decline”. He notes: [P]rivate sector labor unions have been in decline in the United States pretty…
Read MoreForced Unionism Helps Keep Economically Disastrous Environmental Policies Entrenched in California
AMERICA’S GROWTH CORRIDORS: The Key to National Revival A recent report for the Manhattan Institute by economic demographer Joel Kotkin on what he calls America’s “economic growth corridors” (see the link above) is full of interesting data and observations, but the section regarding the rise of high-tech industries in the Rocky Mountain states is especially…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips – March 01, 2013
National Right To Work Foundation Seeks To Bar NLRB Action Due to NLRB’s Lack of a Quorum Seyforth Shaw, LLP, February 19, 2013 On Monday, February 11, 2013 the National Right to Work Foundation (NRTWF) filed its petition for writ of mandamus or prohibition with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals , seeking an…
Read MoreLarry Sand: If unions do so much for members, why bully?
Larry Sand, President of California Teacher Empowerment Network, has hit the nail on the head once again. What other private organization (and unions are private organizations) can thrust itself into a government operation and take over control of the government’s employees? Thank you, Larry, for telling the truth about compulsory unionism! Read Larry’s Op Ed…
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