Analysis of recent U.S. Labor Department Bureau of Labor Statistics data covering the past five years confirms that net manufacturing employment in Right to Work states expanded three times as much as in non-Right To Work states. In both…
BOURBON AND BATTERIES: Gov. Matt Bevin thanked EnerBlu executives for bringing good-paying jobs to Pike County, Ky., then handed them a bottle of whiskey’s “sweet spot,” for which the Bluegrass State is world-famous. Credit: Missouri Times But Missouri Job Creation…
The National Right to Work Committee has posted numerous analyses (see the first link below, for example) over the years citing U.S. Census Bureau data that show forced-unionism states as a group chronically fail to offer appealing economic opportunities…
Data collected and published by the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center, a state government agency, show that in 2016 force-unionism states (then 26 in number) were on average 25.6% more expensive to live in than Right to Work states.
This summer, law enforcement officials in Stamford, Conn., responded to a sharp increase in drug overdose deaths in their jurisdiction by furnishing police with Narcan kits, which can be life-saving in emergency situations caused by opioid abuse. But government union…
This month Toyota employees began moving into the automotive company’s new North American Headquarters in Right to Work Texas. The company’s decision to move its North American home from forced-unionism California to a state where the individual employee’s freedom to…
From 2005 to 2015, Right to Work Texas led the nation for growth in automotive factory output, with production in constant dollars skyrocketing from $4.07 billion to $13.17 billion. Image: Smiley N. Pool/Dallas Morning News Yesterday, the U.S. Commerce…
In a recent commentary, economist and former U.S. House Ways and Means Committee staffer Joanne Butler persuasively argued that, if American Apparel had chosen a number of years ago to site its factories exclusively in Right to Work states, it…