Posts Tagged ‘Heritage Foundation’
Wages Up in RTW States
Natalie Johnson has the good news about Right to Work states in the Daily Signal. Private sector wages are not reduced in right-to-work states as union advocates have argued,…
Read MoreRight to Work States Mean Economic Prosperity
Arthur Laffer, Stephen Moore and Joel Griffith provide more evidence why Right to Work States’ economic power is growing in this Heritage Foundation report. Right-to-Work Laws. On the effect of…
Read MoreJames Sherk on Right to Work Laws
James Sherk, explains the value of Right to Work laws, and reviews campaigns for more laws across the country. He is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Eighteen-year-old…
Read MoreUnion Shoots Down Higher Wages
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23 has taken Gian Eagle Foods to court over raises the grocery store gave some union members. James Sherk questions if unions really do…
Read More‘Unionized Firms Offer Performance-Based Pay Less Than Half as Often’ as Union-Free Businesses
Why Should the Government Prevent Union Members from Earning RAISEs? Most Americans who aren’t close observers of labor-management relations assume that, whatever other faults they may have, union officials can…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Finance Politicians Because it Pays
James Sherk refutes Ezra Klein’s assertion that America has a “. . . deeply unbalanced political system . . .” by highlighting Big Labor’s ability to donate huge “in-kind” contributions…
Read MoreUnion Membership Falls — Again
James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst with the Heritage Foundation, explains why unions do not speak for their members, and consequently continue to lose members. The story is on National Review…
Read MoreWhat Democracy Really Looks Like
Heritage Foundation‘s Ed Fuelner on Michigan Right to Work passage: In a statewide election in Michigan last month, voters soundly defeated Proposal 2, a measure that would have made union…
Read MoreWorkers Should Not Be Forced to Accept a Union’s Services
Unelected Unions: Why Workers Should Be Allowed to – InsiderOnline Well-intentioned critics of teacher union officials often complain that they favor the interests of educators over those of schoolchildren.…
Read More‘Shroom Producers Get 1st Amendment Rights, not U.S. employees
First Amendment Equally Protects Rights of Independent-Minded Workers, Business Owners  Dissenting Workers Should Be Free to Refuse to Bankroll ‘Messages . . . Favored by a Majority’  (Download Fact…
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