Right to Work Oklahoma Attracts New Businesses
Businesses that are investing in Right to Work Oklahoma include Canoo, North Star Scientific, and TAT Technologies. These will create thousands of new jobs!
How Many Jobs Are Coming to Right to Work Oklahoma?
Carter Wind Turbines and Communication Solutions are both investing in Right to Work Oklahoma which will create a total of 550 new jobs.
Businesses Look to Right to Work Oklahoma City to Settle
North Star Scientific and Amazon are adding new locations in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Combined, these two businesses will create 540 new jobs.
Illegal Education Strikes Cause Teacher Pushback
Oklahoma state Rep.-elect Toni Hasenbeck is a seventh grade teacher and 2018 candidate who publicly disagreed with union chiefs on key issues like taxes and charter schools. She won in November by a 1,600-vote margin. Credit: Toni Hasenbeck campaign photo…
Off-the-Charts Right to Work States Job Growth
If Obama is really serious about job creation, he should support Sen. Paul’s National Right to Work Act. The American Enterprise Institute argues that the strongest thing President Obama could do to jump start the economy would be he help…
Oklahoma Bans Taxpayer Giveaways to Construction Unions
Construction contracts for state projects should be awarded based on merit and price not as a giveaway to construction unions, the state of Oklahoma as decided. Gov. Mary Fallin has signed legislation to ban wasteful Project Labor Agreements (PLAs)…
Fact: Union Members Benefit from Right To Work Laws
The continues Investors Business Daily its excellent job of defining and promoting Right to Work: Should workers be forced to join unions or pay them dues as a condition of employment? Indiana recently became the 23rd state to say "no," and polls show support for similar right-to-work laws in union bastions like Minnesota, Michigan and Ohio. In Michigan, unions are so fearful that they are pushing to amend the state constitution to prevent such a law. The presumption is that if such laws passed, many employees would drop out of unions or stop paying dues, weakening labor. There's just one thing: There is little evidence that right-to-work laws cause people to leave unions. In fact, what evidence there is suggests the vast majority stick with their unions. That may be in part because the laws force unions to be more attentive to members' needs. "Somebody asked me how many workers got out because of right-to-work and I said, well, we don't track that number," said Jimmy Curry, president of Oklahoma AFL-CIO, whose state adopted a right-to-work law in 2001. He claims that no more than 10% of his members even register complaints.
Indiana Workers Demand Their Right to Work
From the Wall Street Journal: The labor reform story of the year is unfolding in Indiana, which Republicans who dominate the legislature are trying to make the nation's 23rd right-to-work state. Democrats are resorting to the old run-and-hide ploy, but this could be a huge economic boon to the Hoosier State. Big Labor portrays right to work as a radical change, but it merely lets individual workers decide if they want to join a union. In non-right-to-work states, workers typically must pay union dues once their worksite is organized—whether they want to pay or not. This enhances union clout and the cash to dominate state politics. Many industrial and manufacturing businesses only consider right-to-work states as locales for expanding their operations. The nearest right-to-work state in the Midwest is Iowa, so Indiana could set itself further apart from such high-tax, unionized havens as Illinois and Michigan. According to Chief Executive Magazine's annual CEO survey, Indiana has climbed to sixth from 16th among state business climates, thanks to reforms since 2004 under Governor Mitch Daniels. But the state's biggest liability remains its labor market. A Forbes survey last year ranked Indiana 34th in business climate, partially because of a dismal 44th rank in labor "supply," which includes unionization. Democrats in the state House played hooky for three days last week in an effort to deny a quorum for voting on the law. They returned to work yesterday after Democratic leader B. Patrick Bauer acknowledged that they "can't stay out forever." House members face penalties of $1,000 per day for walkouts longer than three days, so the obstruction could get expensive.