In the first 12 months after Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation making Wisconsin America’s 25th Right to Work state in March 2015, the Badger State gained roughly 49,100 private-sector payroll jobs (seasonally adjusted). Wisconsin had not previously experienced 12-month private-sector…
DATE: April 28, 2016 RE: Air Traffic Control Union Empowerment Act (H.R. 4441) POSITION: Oppose…
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Nearly 80 years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (pictured) upheld the permissibility under federal labor law of contracts designating a union as the bargaining agent only “for those employees who are its members” in Consolidated Edison…
On Average, Right to Work ‘Tax Freedom Day’ Comes 13 Days Sooner (Source: May 2016 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) This morning, the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation announced its estimate…
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As Marquette University associate professor Andrew Hanson (pictured) and fellow economist Zackary Hawley pointed out in a commentary they published late last week, the real value of a dollar varies dramatically around the country. But Big Labor propagandists routinely understate…
When National Public Radio reporter Lisa Autry acknowledged in a report on labor policy last year that “income and job growth” have long been “faster” in Right to Work states than in forced-unionism states, militantly pro-forced unionism listeners howled in…
In successfully pushing for passage of a Right to Work measure early this year, West Virginia Senate President Bill Cole (R-Mercer) suggested it would help boost job growth in his economically struggling state. Just-released U.S. Labor Department employment data reinforce…