Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
‘Expect Firms Both American and Foreign to Look to Open Plants’ in Right to Work States
If you relied on Capitol Hill politicians and union officials for all your information on manufacturing in the U.S., you might well believe it has been rapidly disappearing in recent years. But data from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis tell a very different story. They show that, from 2001 to 2011, real…
Read MoreFight Over the Future of Government Unions ‘May Be the Most Important Political Battle’ in the U.S. Today
Public Unions: The Largest Political Machine– Walter Russell Mead, TAI The perceptive public-policy and political commentator Walter Russell Mead has many good insights in a post today (linked above) for his blog on the American Interest web site. After recapping and analyzing a Wall Street Journal news story that documents the extraordinarily wide range of…
Read MoreNo Wonder President Obama Is Having Trouble Formulating an Economic Growth Message
With Little to Say, Obama Eats Grits in Rust Belt Last week, President Obama’s re-election campaign sent him on a two-day bus tour of northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, historically Democratic Rust Belt territory. Syndicated columnist Michael Barone (see the link above) has wondered aloud why the Obama team clearly feels the need to…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Ignore Indiana Workers’ Mandate for Right to Work Law
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has helped Indiana workers to file amicus brief on behalf of the state of Indiana now that the AFL-CIO wolf is trying to blow the Right to Work Law down. Asheesh Agarwal writes, in the Library of Law and Liberty: Amidst a series of setbacks at both…
Read MoreExclusive: Union Will Seek to Organize Airbus in Right to Work Alabama
While IAM bosses may try to organize Airbus workers in a few years, Alabama workers do NOT have to join or support a union in order to get or keep a job. Ted Reed tells all in The Street . “We have every intention to try to organize the facility,” said IAM President Tom Buffenbarger, in an interview…
Read More‘I Don’t Think There Is Any Question That Right to Work States Have an Advantage’
Alabama governor on how they snagged Airbus- Washington… It’s impossible for any informed person to deny that there’s a robust and longstanding positive correlation between pro-Right to Work state labor policies and private-sector job growth. The positive correlation is evident over any significant time frame, regardless of which measure of employment growth you use.…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – June 15, 2012
Right to Work Works! The New American Online, June 15, 2012 For purposes of this discussion, the definition of the Right to Work principle will be that provided by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research: Walker will not pursue right-to-work in Wisconsin Human Events Online, June 15, 2012 “No, I’m not going to…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – May 25, 2012
Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain’s Religious Rights Ablaze www.nrtw.org, May 21, 2012 With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Susanville firefighter John Valentich filed the charge against the CDFF union with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission located in San Francisco. What’s…
Read MoreA Nascent Economic Boom in America’s Newest Right to Work State?
http://bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf “Ž http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/laus.pdf IndianaPerforming Well in Job Growth In the U.S.as a whole, the anemic private-sector employment growth of early 2012 got even more feeble last month, as the nation’s business payrolls barely increased by an estimated 0.1%, seasonally-adjusted. (See the first link above.) However, job seekers are faring far better in…
Read MoreRight to Work North Dakota’s Economic Boom Isn’t Just About Oil
CARPE DIEM: North Dakota’s Amazing Economic Success; It’s Not … PN Bakken: Anderson: North Dakota not just about oil – May 06 … For some time now, it’s been widely reported that North Dakota, a Right to Work state since 1948, has a booming economy. Influential economics commentator Mark Perry laid out the key data well in…
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