The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its seasonally adjusted January 2009 rankings of unemployment rates for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Guess what the eight states with the lowest January unemployment rates…
David Gillis of the Times Herald newspaper in Port Huron, Michigan has looked at the numbers and concludes Michigan can no longer afford to restrict workers’ Right to Work. Why? According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in the 22…
Iowa House Speaker Pat Murphy has gone the extra mile to reward the union bosses with taxpayer largess. With his efforts to enact a state prevailing wage law stalled by a single vote, Murphy has done the extraordinary —…
Take it from someone who creates manufacturing jobs, enactment the Card Check Scam Bill is a “lose-lose situation for businesses and employees, and threatens the fundamental rights of the very workers that the unions claim to want to protect.” The…
Big Labor advocates like to cite the big government spending programs of the Depression-era as the panacea for what ails us today. But Mark Mix, the President of the National Right to Work Committee, looks at the facts. If…
Doug Bandow’s description of the Card Check Scam Bill as the “Secret Ballot Destruction Act” certainly fits the bill.
The latest state unemployment figures, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show that state Right to Work laws have a significant effect on unemployment rates. In December 2008, states with Right to Work laws had an average unemployment rate…
California is mired in debt and red ink. Is it any surprise that Big Labor bosses have unlimited control and power over the state’s political establishment? The San Diego Union-Tribune reminds readers that: For years, the Democrats who dominate Sacramento…
The boss of the UAW union has predicted that there will be no wage cuts associated with efforts to reform the American automobile industry. Why? According to Ron Gettelfinger, it is because workers at non-unionized Toyota plants make $2 more…