Subscribe to The National Right to Work Committee® Website Updates by Email Why are Democrats afraid of allowing workers to choose or not choose to join a union? They would rather leave town and continue to…
From Missouri State Sen. Robert N. Mayer's Op-Ed in the Southeast Missiourian 'Right to work' equals jobs: More than 280,000 Missourians are out of work. The alarm is sounding and we should all hear the wake-up call that now is the time to put all the pieces in place so Missouri can truly compete for jobs. Currently, Missouri is missing out on new jobs because companies are drawn to other states with better worker protection laws. Fifty percent of manufacturers refuse to consider Missouri as a place to locate new jobs because we have no protections against forced unionization of our workers -- that's according to testimony given to the Senate General Laws Committee by Mark Sweeney. Sweeney is a site location consultant who works to find new plant sites for both domestic and foreign manufacturing companies. He says Missouri is off the radar for 50 percent of his clients, plus the rest consider right-to-work laws when weighing which state they will choose. Not having right-to-work has cost us in many ways. First, Missouri is losing a congressional seat due to the most recent census data. That data shows businesses with jobs and the workers who take them are fleeing to states with worker protection laws. Non-right-to-work states lost a total of nine congressional seats and, due to population shifts, right-to-work states gained 11. This session we have the opportunity to correct this wrong by bringing beneficial jobs to Missouri while keeping hard-working citizens in our state. Second, we have underperformed compared with the six of our eight neighboring states that are right-to-work states. All those states have lower unemployment rates than Missouri. Tennessee, the only one with a comparable rate to ours, gained jobs in 2010 while Missouri lost jobs. Plus, data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows unemployment is lower in the 22 states that have adopted right-to-work laws. In the last decade, those states have added 1.5 million private sector jobs, while non-right-to-work states have lost 1.8 million jobs. With more than 160,000 jobs lost in our state since June 2008, we cannot afford to stand by and not take action.
Maine Governor Paul LePage has made good on a promise to protect workers from forced unionism in Maine. Two right-to-work bills have been introduced in the legislature that would make…
BigGovernment.com gives Fox News’ Neil Cavuto the answer to his question: Was Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels “punked” by Big Labor? Great question by Fox News’ Neil Cavuto to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels: “I am wondering if you just…
Click image to contact Gov. Daniels. GOP Senate candidate in Missouri Sarah Steelman (R) joined a growing group of conservatives to to announce support of ‘Right to Work’ legislation in Missouri. “The first step that Missouri has to take to regain its competitive advantage…
Subscribe to The National Right to Work Committee® Posts by Email It was Right then. It is Right Now! Once upon time not too long ago, a Big Labor-controlled congress attempted to do away with state Right to…
In order to avoid a vote on making Indiana a Right to Work state, Democrats are taking their lead from their counterparts in Wisconsin and are running away. From the Indianapolis Star: House Democrats are leaving the state rather than vote…
Subscribe to The National Right to Work Committee® by Email [stream provider=youtube flv=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DcUByXxqdanM img=x:/img.youtube.com/vi/cUByXxqdanM/0.jpg embed=false share=false width=580 height=360 dock=true controlbar=over bandwidth=high autostart=false /] On February 17th, Rush Limbaugh exposed the “real reason” union bosses in Wisconsin are in a…
(Source: December 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Union bosses like AFL-CIO czar Richard Trumka claim that forced-unionism policies are in union members' best interest. But a new scientific poll shows union members overwhelmingly support the Right to Work principle. New Nationwide Poll Shows Union Members Support Right to Work A scientific survey of union members nationwide, conducted the week before the November elections by well-known pollster Frank Luntz for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, shows that Big Labor bosses are out of touch with the people they purport to represent as well as the public at large. The poll gauged the opinions of both private- and government-sector union members regarding key aspects of the agenda Big Labor bankrolls with union treasury funds, which consist primarily of dues and fees that workers are forced to fork over as a condition of employment. In the 2009-2010 campaign cycle, union officials funneled forced dues and fees extracted from an estimated nine million union members and forced union fee-paying nonmembers into what appears to have been their largest ever federal mid-term electoral war chest. Top bosses of the AFL-CIO-affiliated American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union openly admit to having spent a total of nearly $87.5 million, mostly union treasury money, on mid-term electioneering. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) bosses acknowledge pouring $44 million, primarily forced-dues money, into 2009-2010 politics. National Education Association (NEA) teacher union chiefs have owned up to siphoning $40 million into politicking over the past two years. Altogether, it's safe to say Organized Labor shelled out more than a billion dollars in reported and unreported contributions, including "in-kind" support like phone banks and get-out-the-vote drives as well as cash, to its favored 2010 congressional candidates. Four Out of Five Union Members Reject Forced Union Membership, Dues