Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), July 22, 2008 At the Dedication of Nissan’s $100 Million Headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee I thank the legislatures that worked with all of us in such a bipartisan way to maintain Tennessee’s other…
Michigan is in the throes of a Big Labor induced economic recession and Crain’s Detroit Business report has weighed in with an idea that is a small step in the right direction. Crain’s suggests the state enact Right to…
Over 27 years ago, on February 3, 1981, the Nissan Corporation started, what has become, a mass migration of the auto manufacturing industry away from the stagnation of Detroit and the Midwest’s forced-unionism environs to a new day, and a…
Release of new economic data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis has provided an opportunity to confirm that Right to Work states perform better that forced-unionism states, and a blog called Willisms has done just that. After crunching numbers…
Why is Michigan’s car industry struggling but Alabama’s is thriving? How is the “Yellowhammer State” successfully courting companies like Honda, Toyota Motor Corp. and Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz? Steve Sewell, executive vice president for the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, said…
Hawaii’s Gov. Linda Lingle’s veto of Hawaii’s version of the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill has infuriated the state’s union bosses who seek to override her decision. Luckily for workers, Lingle has an ally in this fight. Rep. Colleen Meyer…
The News Virginian knows that Virginia’s Right to Work Law has been a boon to the citizens of the Commonwealth, but that hasn’t stopped the state’s Big Labor bosses from trying to undermine the law: Concealed beneath the clamor over…
Texas State Rep. Ken Paxton understands what it takes to create jobs and prosperity. Writing in the Dallas Morning News, Paxton points out that “Texas has gained 36,000 manufacturing jobs since 2004, while 200,000 manufacturing jobs have left Ohio since…
Virginia’s Right to Work Law has been a cornerstone of economic growth and job creation for decades. But now a group of liberal lawmakers are seeking to, in the words of Del. Chris Saxman (R-Staunton), “begin an irreversible trend towards…