Tag: Right-to-work laws

Pro-Union States Lose a Million Jobs to Right-to-Work States

September 6, 2022
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A recent report based on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data confirmed what was anecdotally apparent: that jobs continue to flood out of pro-union states and into states with more free-market policies. The study by economist Todd Nesbit and public policy analyst Michael LaFaive reported that right-to-work (RTW) states added 1.3 million jobs since the…

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The Economics and Politics of the Pro-Union Protecting the Right to Organize Act

June 30, 2021
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Commentary For many decades now, the percentage of private-sector American workers who belong to a labor union has been declining. According to a Hoover Institution study by Richard A. Epstein, the percentage of unionized workers in the private sector has fallen from nearly 20 percent in 1983 to 6.2 percent in 2019. Attempts by union…

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Biden’s American Unions Plan

May 5, 2021
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Commentary President Joe Biden is traveling to Virginia and Louisiana this week to pitch his American Jobs Plan—also called an “infrastructure” plan. New bridges, safer highways and more broadband are easy sells. But that’s only half the story. Biden’s plan is a massive and coercive push to unionize the American workforce. Whether workers want it…

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