Job Growth Twice as Fast in Right to Work States
Voluntary Unionism Also Linked to More Rapid Compensation Growth (Click here to download the April 2015 National Right to Work Newsletter) On March 17, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of…
Most of U.S. Manufacturing GDP Now Emanates From Right to Work States
According to U.S. Commerce Department data released on June 10, last year a record 47.9% of the entire U.S. manufacturing output, measured in current dollars, occurred in states that had prohibited compulsory union dues and fees. (A link to the entire…
Right to Work Law Will Help Wisconsin Add 'Family Supporting Jobs'
A Right to Work measure now scheduled to come up in the Wisconsin Senate this week is widely expected to clear both chambers of the Badger State Legislature and be signed by GOP Gov. Scott Walker by early next month.
Eight of the Top Nine States For 2003-2013 Private-Sector Job Growth Have Right to Work Laws
On Tuesday the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its initial estimates for total 2013 private-sector, nonfarm employment in the 50 states. The BEA simultaneously released revised estimates for overall state personal income and an array of…
Right to Work Boosts Manufacturing Growth
Employee Freedom a Vital Component of America’ s Prosperity (Click here to download the July 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter)…
Right to Work States "Tax Freedom Day" Arrives Earlier
(Click here to download the May 2014 National Right to Work Committee Newsletter) Households in High-Cost Forced-Unionism States ‘Get Socked Twice’ Early…
Compensation Growth Lags in Forced-Dues States
Activists Push For Recorded Votes on State Right to Work Measures (Click here to download the National Right to Work Committee’s November-December 2013 Newsletter) Even union bosses and their apologists sometimes grudgingly admit that long-term private-sector job growth in…
Longtime Economic Laggard Indiana's Output Growth Rose to Eighth Fastest in the Nation in 2012
Freshly released U.S. Commerce Department data on 2012 economic output growth in the 50 states add to the evidence that Indiana employees and businesses are gaining ground in the wake of the enactment by the Hoosier Legislature of the 24th…
Right to Work is about Freedom and Jobs not Political Parties
President Obama, pandering to a crowd of Democrat party AFL-CIO union activists, attacked Right to Work laws as being more about politics than economics when the inverse is true -- opposition to Right to Work laws is about the Big Labor-owned Democrat party not economics. The President's own Department of Commerce's proves our point: Somethings never CHANGE, no matter how much we HOPE it does. Today the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis posted annual personal income data for 2011 on its web site. The data show that Right to Work states continue to enjoy a substantial income growth advantage over forced-unionism states. The Right to Work growth advantage is especially strong when it comes to private-sector compensation – that is, the wages, salaries, bonuses and benefits businesses provide for their employees. From 2010 to 2011 alone, private-sector compensation increased by 2.2% in the 22 Right to Work states, after adjusting for inflation with the U.S. Labor Department’s consumer price index (CPI-U). In the 28 compulsory-unionism states, real private-sector compensation increased by just 1.7%. (Just this month, Indiana became the 23rd Right to Work state as the law banning forced union dues and fees signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels in early February took effect.) Over the past 10 years, from 2001 to 2011, real private-sector compensation in Right to Work states grew by 12.5%. That increase is four times as great as forced-unionism states’ aggregate gain of just 3.1%.