State laws protecting employees’ Right to Work are strongly correlated with better- funded public pensions. On average, unfunded pension liabilities per capita are 40% lower in Right to Work states than in forced-unionism states. Chart by NRTWC Staff Union Dons…
Even as the number of steelworkers actively employed in forced-unionism states like Pennsylvania continues to decline, new high-paying metal production jobs are being created in Right to Work states like Arkansas. Credit: Gene J. Puska/AP If You Can’t Beat ’Em…
Thanks largely to aggressive grass-roots activism by members of the National Right to Work Committee, the number of congressional cosponsors of the forced-dues repeal legislation introduced in the U.S. House and Senate early this year continues to rise. S.525 and H.R.2571, respectively introduced early in the 2019-20 Congress by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), had a combined total of nearly 100 sponsors as this Newsletter went to press in early October. These essentially identical bills would not add a single word to federal labor law. Instead, they would simply repeal the current provisions in the federal code that authorize and promote the termination of employees for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union.
Big Labor is now demanding that, even in staunchly pro-Right to Work states like Virginia, politicians must support compulsory unionism to receive its backing. “There is no doubt that a rising share of elected officials in Virginia are dependent on the Big Labor machine to get in power and stay in power,” noted National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix.
Monopolistic Unionism Hurts Autoworkers Union-Free Factories Help Make Tennessee an ‘Automotive Leader’ As this Newsletter edition goes to press in early May, United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union bosses are embroiled in their latest bid to corral employees at the Volkswagen…
‘The People Who Can Leave Are Leaving’ Even as thousands of working-age New Jerseyans flee to Right to Work states each year to escape onerous living costs and taxes, Big Labor Gov. Phil Murphy claims the state is on the…
Lars Larson interviewed National Right to Work President Mark Mix at a remote location.
Job-Creating Investments Pour Into Kentucky In 2018, a National Right to Work attorney went before the Kentucky Supreme Court to defend the state’s Right to Work law on behalf of factory employees William and Jacob Purvis (pictured) and one other…