After the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME, union members were supposed to be allowed to leave if they wanted. That’s not how it worked out though. In The Wall Street Journal, Charles Mitchell reports that unions have ways of making members stay. It’s very much a Hotel California, you can check out, but […]
Dear Amazon: National Right to Work President’s Open Letter
When politicians play games to lure companies to their state, it is oftentimes with tax breaks using money they don’t have, as was the case with New York’s tax breaks to Amazon. Amazon was going to pay much more in taxes than they received in tax breaks—by a lot—it was basically New York Prime. The […]
Americans Want to Leave Their High Tax States
States with high taxes, despite taking more of their citizens’ money, tend to have poorer infrastructure and services. So it’s no surprise that citizens who live in those states also have a greater desire to leave. Steven Malanga explains this phenomenon in The Wall Street Journal, and suggests that labor laws have a lot to […]
National Right to Work Could Help States That Can’t Help Themselves
Many states are hostage to the powerful public sector unions they employ. These unions are the largest, most organized group of voters in many forced-union states. They wield their massive power to lobby for higher wages. Paying those wages demands higher taxation, which can cripple private industry in the states. State governments that have been […]
Will Virginians Allow a Socialist to Take Away Their Right to Work?
In his State of the Union speech on February 5, President Trump told Americans that “America will never be a socialist country.” Working hard to change that is Virginia State House delegate Lee Carter, a self described democratic socialist, who is attempting to eliminate the state’s protections for workers. Carter wants to repeal Virginia’s Right to Work laws, […]
Corporations Shower Right-to-Work Kentucky with Investment
Most companies looking to invest their dollars in new production facilities simply aren’t willing to risk the inefficiencies and disruption caused by forced unionism, and so they build in Right-to-Work states. Kentucky, says Craig Bouchard, CEO of Braidy Industries, wasn’t even on the company’s list of possible destinations until it enacted a Right-to-Work law last […]
Progressive Government Destroys N.Y., California and Illinois
Move your business from these three nightmare states. Are you getting murdered by brutal taxes or just plain murdered, as in Chicago. The overall business climate in California, New York and Illinois, as well as in the anti-2nd Amendment, anti-growth policies of the nine Progressives running these three “train wrecks” is in a word […]
Are Unions Bankrupting the States?
According to the National Right to Work Committee, unions’ ability to elect their own bosses leaves states open to political capture. Union bosses amass huge campaign warchests which they use to fund sympathetic candidates. In fact, “in the nearly two dozen states where government-sector forced union dues and fees are still authorized and promoted, union […]
Landmark Ruling in Forced Union Dues Case at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled against public sector unions in the case of Janus v. AFSCME. The court said that employees cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions. CNBC’s Tucker Higgins reports: The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that non-union workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions. “Compelling […]
Your Retirement Life: Cost of Living Higher in These States Part I
A recent study by the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) estimates the average annual cost of living in 2017 for all 50 states. The National Institute for Labor Relations Research used MERIC’s data to calculate the average annual cost of living in Right to Work States and forced-unionism states. As of […]
