According to CEO Craig Bouchard (right), until the first week of January, no Kentucky locations were being considered for his firm’s planned aluminum plant. Then Gov. Matt Bevin (left) signed the state’s Right to Work law. (credit: AP photo/adam beam)…
An analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data conducted by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation shows the 26 states that still lacked Right to Work protections in 2014 had an average per capita government debt of $10,884, or more than $3400 higher…
From 2006 to 2016, civilian household employment grew by more than twice as much in the 22 states that had Right to Work laws on the books for the entire decade as in the 24 states that imposed forced union…
Not just housing, but also other necessities like food and health care are substantially more expensive in forced-unionism states than in Right to Work states And higher prices for such necessities hurt the poor and the near-poor most of all.
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Any day now, Big Labor Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is expected to veto Right to Work legislation that reached his desk earlier this month. And it seems that, although support for abolishing forced union dues and fees is very strong…
In a column published 50 years ago this summer, economic journalist Henry Hazlitt took on proponents of compulsory unionism who hypocritically invoke “freedom of contract” as their justification for their stance. At the time, Big Labor was pushing furiously for…