Andre Lacy, the Chairman of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, weighs in on the need for Indiana to enact a Right to Work law: Increasing Hoosier incomes is among our state’s greatest challenges. Indiana must compete globally for jobs…
If you are still scratching your head trying to figure out why companies like VW would pass over Michigan when deciding where to put a new billion dollar production facility, look no further than W.I. Meyers Nursery in downtown Detroit.
Montana Democrats endorsed a party platform this week that specifically rejects workers’ choice and the Right to Work. Montana’s neighbors: Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming, have all benefited from the enactment of a Right to Work law. Surrounded by a…
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…