Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
‘Townies’ and ‘Gownies’ Alike Find Opportunities in Right to Work States
To explain away slow workforce growth in forced-unionism states like New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York and California, Big Labor allies sometimes adopt an oddly elitist stance:Union boss-controlledstates may indeed belosing far more employees due to out-migration tothe rest of the country than they are gainingdue toin-migration, apologists concede, but they are doing just fine when…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet, April 11, 2014
Ambush is Coming shopfloor.org, April 10, 2014 While the idea of having this public hearing on its face would fit the definition of an open and transparent government rulemaking process, the hearing itself is more reminiscent of other public “hearings,” which have been held lately. Hearings where only one side is permitted to ask questions…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clipsheet April 04, 2014
Sens. McConnell, Paul Introduce National Right to Work Amendment www.mcconnell.senate.gov, April 02, 2014 “But right now, I’d like to talk about another jobs proposal Senator Paul and I have again introduced – national Right to Work legislation. It would allow American workers to choose whether or not they’d like to join a union…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips, March 21, 2014
Bus company cuts ties with union in Spring Grove Hanover (PA) Evening Sun, March 14, 2014 More than half the drivers of Teamsters Local 776 signed a petition asking that they no longer be represented by the union, according to Aaron Solem, legal counsel for drivers circulating the petition. That, he said, is an acceptable…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 14, 2014
Right-to-work bill dies in Kentucky House committee wave3.com, March 14, 2014 A Kentucky House committee’s vote killed right-to-work legislation for the rest of the year, but both sides say the issue will play a key role in November’s elections. Is It Really News to UAW Bosses That Their Political Partisanship Offends Many Workers? www.nilrr.org…
Read MoreKentucky needs to be a right to work state
State Represenaatative Sal Santoroexplains why Kentucky should pass a Right to Work Law in cincinnati.com. USA Today recently published a report entitled “The Most Miserable States in the USA” that, based on survey results, ranked Kentucky as the second most miserable state in the country. Only West Virginia was ranked worse in the survey. It’s…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Were on Average 21% More Costly to Live in Than Right to Work States in 2013
Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published its latest set of comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states. (See the link below.) MERIC’s new indices estimate the average annual cost of living in 2013 for each state. The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has now used these data to…
Read MoreMessage to UAW Boss Darin Gilley: Missouri’s Extremely Slow Labor-Force Growth Is a Sign of Economic Weakness, Not Strength
One obvious, but often overlooked, fact about the unemployment trend in any one of the 50 states over time is that it is the result of two key inputs: employment growth, and labor-force growth. In America, people in general, and employees and job seekers specifically, have always been free to move from state to state.…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, January 24, 2014
Unions Raise More than 80 Percent of Cash Raised for San Diego Dem National Review Online, January 20, 2014 Four out of every five dollars spent to support one of the leading candidates to fill disgraced San Diego mayor Bob Filner’s seat comes from organized labor. The U-T San Diego reports that approximately $2.7…
Read MoreRight to Work States’ Population Growth Double That of Forced-Unionism States
For decades, far more people have been moving out of states where employees may legally be fired for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union and into Right to Work states than vice versa. During the Great Recession of 2008-2009, a number of apologists for monopolistic unionism suggested that this cataclysmic event…
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