Union Bosses Going All Out to Capture Congress
During the months leading up to Election Day 2026, Big Labor bosses’ focus on politics has never been more explicit.
The latest state unemployment figures, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show that state Right to Work laws have a significant effect on unemployment rates. In December 2008, states with Right to Work laws had an average unemployment rate of 6.2 percent, compared to 7.0 percent for states without Right to Work. Under a Right to Work law, individual workers cannot be forced to pay union dues or fees to a labor union just to get or keep a job.
Michigan has the highest unemployment of all 50 states, at 10.6 percent. Rhode Island, another non-Right to Work state, had the nation’s second highest unemployment rate, at 10.0 percent. The lowest unemployment rates are all in Right to Work states.
During the months leading up to Election Day 2026, Big Labor bosses’ focus on politics has never been more explicit.
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
... States that continuously lacked Right to Work protections for employees from 2012-23 lost a net total of $2.05 trillion in cumulative AGI solely as a consequence of domestic out-migration of taxpayers during that 11-year period.