Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
Governor Kasich: No Right to Work for Ohio
Ohio Governor Kasich has caved to Big Labor demands to keep Ohio workers under union rule. The Wall Street Journal’s Neil King, Jr., has the story. Job growth is up. The Republican governor just signed what he calls “the biggest tax cut in the country” after converting a looming $7.7 billion budget deficit into…
Read MoreJob, Income Data Indicate Right to Work Laws Are Economically Beneficial
Moreover, the Burden of Economic Proof Should Be on Apologists For Compulsory Unionism 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 union for a decade or more. Twenty-seven states lacked Right to…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips August 9, 2013
A Union Run Amok National Review Online, August 8, 2013 John Raudabaugh, a staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation, is representing Clark. He says the union failed to inform employees of their rights to opt out of membership and pay reduced dues so that their money wouldn’t go to the union’s political…
Read MoreUnion Hierarchy Boasts About Its Misinformation Squad in Bardstown, Ky.
Rapidly Responding to ‘Right to Work’ – AFL-CIO An item appearing on the AFL-CIO Now blog yesterday applauds Chris Ormes, chieftain of United Steel Workers (USW/AFL-CIO) Local 1241 in Bardstown, Ky., for his relentless opposition to enactment of a Right to Work law in the Bluegrass State. (See the link above the photo.) Recently, Ormes…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips July 19, 2013
50 Politicos to Watch: Doug Stafford Politico.com, July19, 2013 Stafford did not meet Paul until late in the summer of 2009. He had risen from a junior writer to vice president of the National Right to Work Committee, the pro-business lobbying group that opposes forced unionization. Minnesota’s child care union battle moves into federal…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clipsheet July 12, 2013
Right to Work and a Test for Republicans Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2013 Still, a ranking of 22nd out of 50 states leaves plenty of room for improvement and begs the question: What do the top 10 states for business–Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Arizona, Virginia, South Carolina, Nevada and Georgia–have in…
Read MoreFastest-Growing Cities are in Right To Work States
Tom Gantert has the story in Michigan Capitol Confidential. The city of Cedar Park in Texas was the fastest growing city in terms of percentage growth from 2010 to 2012 when it increased 12 percent to 57,957 people, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. Eight of the top 15 fastest growing cities were in…
Read MoreWould Washington Workers Really Rather Fail Than Switch?
While pundits believe Washington state will not pass it, a Right to Work bill has been introduced in the State. Labor bosses, leading legislators around by the nose, fiddle while the Washington’s aerospace industry crashes because they will not pass a Right to Work law, and Boeing is making massive investment in factories in South…
Read MoreRight to Work Kansas Ranks High in Employment
Right to Work has helped put Kansas on map for low unemployment and high labor force participation. Megan Hart has the story in Topeka Capital Journal online.com Kansas ranked among the 10 best states for unemployment and labor force participation in 2012, besting some states whose business climates are more often held up as models.…
Read MoreMichigan Supreme Court considers giving Snyder an early opinion on right-to-work
Michigan Government union officials are still demanding the courts give them back their forced-dues privileges. Paul Egan has the story in the Detroit Free Press. More than three months after Gov. Rick Snyder asked for it, the Michigan Supreme Court is still mulling whether to give him an advisory opinion on whether Michigan’s controversial right-to-work…
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