Musgrove Grovels to AFL-CIO
Former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove (D) is running for the state’s open Senate seat as an economic populist. But when it comes to standing up for workers and their right to vote in a union election, he is taking the…
Greening AFSCME's Pockets
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 -- Keep Jobs Away
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…
Right to Work Tennessee
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…
Crain's Detroit: Enact Right to Work
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…
Right to Work and the Auto Industry
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…
SEIU: $75 Million on Tap
In addition to the quarter of a billion dollars the AFL-CIO will spend to elect pro-Big Labor puppets across the nation, the Services Employees International Union (SEIU) will spend an incredible $75 million in forced-union-dues money between now and November.
Michigan Struggles While Alabama Grows
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…
Sen. Pryor: Ending Elections Modernizes Labor Law
What an outrage! To justify his vote to eliminate workers’ input in the unionization process, Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is claiming that his vote to enact the Card Check Scam Bill was the “first step toward modernizing American labor law.”…