Committee Helps Thwart Minnesota Power Grab
This summer, the Republican-controlled Minnesota state Senate came dangerously close to acquiescing to a Big Labor power grab...
This summer, the Republican-controlled Minnesota state Senate came dangerously close to acquiescing to a Big Labor power grab...
A new bus factory in Shepherdsville that is expected to employ more than 500 people by next year is just one example of the opportunity-creating business investments Right to Work Kentucky is attracting. Credit: WDRB-TV (Louisville, Ky.) Right to Work…
Sally Coomer testified before Congress regarding a similar situation for her in Duvall, Washington. Under current…
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According to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, this was “the largest one-month increase in the Hoosier State on record.” The state’s November 2013 employment gains were substantial
The liberal Minnesota Star Tribune takes state Democrats to task for trying to reward union bosses with the forced unionization of Minnesota child care providers: If a child care provider union comes to pass, some of the $207 million…
(Source: December 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) In every region of the country where both Right to Work states and forced-unionism states are located, the Right to Work states' long-term economic growth is superior. The Midwestern contrast is especially strong. Legislators Look at 'Oklahoma Model' For Stronger Economic Growth It's been more than seven decades since The Grapes of Wrath, both the John Steinbeck novel and the Hollywood movie it inspired, established the desperate migration of "Okies" from the Dust Bowl to the orchards of California as an icon of the Great Depression. Times have certainly changed. As an October 12 USA Today feature story noted, since 1999, "the number of Californians departing the Golden State for Oklahoma has outnumbered those going the opposite direction by more than 21,000 . . . ." The net influx of people into the Sooner State from California and many other states with sub-par or abysmal job and income growth records is, as USA Today put it, "a sign of Oklahoma's growing economic prowess." To explain the state's recent record of economic success, the USA Today feature specifically mentioned Oklahoma's low and relatively stable housing costs, its concentration of aerospace and defense technology expertise, and its oil and natural gas reserves. But as important as these assets are, Oklahoma had them all in the early 1990's, when its long-term job and income growth still trailed the national average. The real turning point for Oklahoma's transition from an economic laggard to an economic leader was in 1992 -- when the National Right to Work Committee teamed up with local grass-roots activists to map out a multi-year campaign to pass a Sooner Right to Work law. Benefits of Right to Work Campaign Were Evident Long Before State Law Was Passed "In the early 1990's, the 'Dust Bowl' was already a distant memory, but Oklahoma's job climate still seemed pretty dry," commented Matthew Leen, vice president of the National Right to Work Committee. Domestic population migration data reflect Oklahoma's "growing economic prowess." The 1994-2001 Sooner State campaign to pass a Right to Work law, as well as the law itself, helped build that prowess. "From 1984 through 1994, the decade before the Committee program to pass a Right to Work law in Oklahoma was initiated, private-sector employment in Oklahoma increased by less than a third as much as the national average, according to the U.S. Labor Department. "Over that same decade, inflation-adjusted U.S. Commerce Department data show Oklahoma's real personal income grew by just 2.3%, less than a tenth of the nationwide percentage gain. "But in 1994, the seeds of change were
Former Minnesota Governor and presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty (R) is calling on Congress and local government to join him in stoping the “silent coup” stopping the “silent coup” from government-employee unions, arguing that their benefits packages are sucking up vital taxpayer…