Bob Dylan wrote “The Times They Are A-Changin’” long before the recent debate taking place in Michigan about the future of the economy and what can be done to turn it around. But the tune comes to mind when contemplating…
The editorial page of the Charleston Daily Mail forcefully makes the case for passage of a Right to Work law in West Virginia: West Virginia University economics professor Russell Sobel dared to raise the long-dormant issue of right-to-work in his…
Remember when Illinois Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich rallied union bosses and activists with a call for massive tax increases, declaring he was “on the side of the Lord?” The state AFL-CIO and the Illinois Education Association joined his cause demanding…
Columnist Manny Lopez joins the growing choir calling for implementation of a Right to Work law in Michigan. With Gov. Jennifer Granholm pushing a tax hike through the legislature, Lopez says it’s time for a grand compromise. “State Democrats, led…
The Detroit News rightly finds legislation introduced in the Michigan State Senate by Michael Prusi as “[f]urther proof that the teacher unions in Michigan — and their lackeys in the Legislature — have little concern for anyone but their members.”…
Jim Walters of the Georgetown, Kentucky News-Graphic understands that it will take “new ideas and leadership backbone” to move Kentucky forward economically: . . . Kentucky’s next governor could wield a positive influence over the commonwealth’s sluggish economy by…
The Wheeling Intelligencer reports: Russell Sobel, professor of economics at West Virginia University, strongly believes the state’s economy would benefit if the Legislature were to support a right to work law . . . . Sobel could not be…
In a recent editorial, the Detroit News questioned whether Right to Work was gaining momentum in the state of Michigan: A month ago, when James Epolito of the state’s economic development agency was asked whether Michigan should become a right-to-work…
Iowa State Rep. Ralph Watts is reporting that opposition to gutting the state Right to Work law is so intense that even the so-called compromise proposal that would “just” force all public employees to pay union fees or dues, leaving…