Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
Right To Work Tennessee Jobs Growing Again
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has made several recent economic development announcements:
Read MoreHISTORY 101 — Right to Work: A Winning Issue
(Originally published on January 1, 2002) For well over three decades, congressional debates and recorded votes on the Right to Work issue have consistently benefited proponents and harmed opponents in subsequent election campaigns. The inverse has proven equally true: Whenever federal politicians who publicly purport to support Right to Work have chosen, supposedly for “tactical”…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News August 10, 2018
Down but not out: Look for right-to-work to be resurrected onenewsnow.com, August 08, 2018 Tuesday night’s vote was a big win for unions, which The Associated Press says spent millions of dollars in recent weeks to convince Missourians that right-to-work is bad for the Show Me State. “I’ve already talked to a number of legislators…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News August 03, 2018
US Supreme Court ruling in union dues impacts case in Oregon kveo.com, July 30, 2018 Debora Nearman, a systems analyst with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, said in her lawsuit filed in April in federal court that the state’s practice of forcing her to pay fees to fund union activity violated her First Amendment…
Read MoreRight to Work 2:1 over Compulsory Unionism States in Job Growth
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research senior research associate Stan Greer recently published some of his findings at CNSNews. According to Mr. Greer, aggregate employment growth in the 22 states that had still not adopted Right to Work legislation as of the end of last year grew by less than half the Right to…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clips
Trump’s Appointees Are Restoring Reason to the NLRB Wall Street Journal Online, January 31, 2018\ Meantime, the new NLRB has more repair work to do. Up next for reversal could be an Obama-era rule that cut the median time for union elections by more than a third, making them harder for management to contest. Last…
Read MoreMore People Buying New Homes in Right To Work States
Right to Work = Better Quality of Life when measured by:Percentage Growth in Total Private Sector, Non-Farm Employment (2005-2015);Percentage Growth in the Number of People Employed (2006-2016);Growth in Manufacturing, Private-Sector Payroll Employment (2011-2016);Cost of Living-Adjusted Per Capita Disposable Personal Income (2016);New Privately-Owned Single-Unit Housing Authorizations (per 1,000 Residents, 2016); andPercentage Real Growth in Household Consumption…
Read MoreWorkplaces Have Become Significantly Safer in Right to Work Indiana
Drawing on multi-year data collected and reported by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Indiana Department of Labor (IDOL) recently pointed out that the rate of workplaces injuries and illnesses is now at an all-time low in the Hoosier State: At 3.5 injuries or illnesses per 100 full-time…
Read More‘Hoosiers’ Real Purchasing Power Has Increased More Rapidly’
One important reason why living standards in Indiana have improved relative to in forced-unionism states nationwide since the Hoosier Right to Work law was adopted in early 2012 is the relative reduction in Indianans’ cost of living from 2012 to 2016. In an op-ed published last weekend by the Columbia (Mo.)Tribune (see the link below…
Read MoreRaspberries for Compulsory Unionism
One very significant point for Right to Work legislation is that it fosters the creation and retention of high-paying, family-supporting jobs. As regular National Institute for Labor Relations Research website visitors know, there is a mountain of evidence indicating that legislation outlawing compulsory financial support of unions is economically beneficial. A particularly powerful example…
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