Posted by Tina
A new study by the American Enterprise Institute suggests that the right to work is more beneficial for workers, business and economic conditions. The Institute analyzed economic activity throughout the nation from 1977 to 2012 and discovered the following:
Wages – Median income loss per-person is $3,278, or $13,100 for a family of four, in forced-unionism states. Furthermore, the higher the union membership of a state, the more depressed their economic growth.
Population – RTW states have had a substantial net gain in population, while those without have seen a net loss. In other words, people vote with their feet.
Jobs – Over the study period, employment growth averaged 71% nationwide, but there was a clear difference, as RTW states grew employment by 105% whereas those without those laws grew only 50%. Among the hardest hit states: California, Connecticut, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, and Michigan (which just adopted RTW in 2012).
Lost Income – The total estimated income loss in 2012 from the lack of RTW laws was an extraordinary $647.8 billion, or about $2,000 for every American.
California is right there at the top of the list of loser states, no surprise there! I hope the young people who are having difficulty finding good jobs in California take note of this study. Freedom, as they say, works every time its tried.
Visit the IJR website to see video of President Obama standing on the wrong side of this issue and a map showing right to work states in red!
Read the full report here!
Cool, California is overcrowded. We are running out of water, electric power and land. The freeways are packed, so are the cities, the prisons and most everything else.
Hopefully more people will leave.
Well that’s one way to look at it, a little selfish though, don’t you think?
Especially since California doesn’t really have a water problem. California has a water storage problem. We haven’t built sufficient storage to meet the demand…that is a result of poor planning by short sighted people.
We have the means of generating plenty of power too and even the land is plentiful since most of the people seem happy enough to pack themselves into those big cities with packed freeways.
Most of California is not LA, SFBA, and Silicon Valley in terms of land.
It is a shame that we foolishly dumped so much water into the ocean, supposedly to “save” the Delta smelt when that water could have been used to generate revenue for more water storage from food growers in the Central Valley who were instead driven out of business.
If more people leave that means you’ll be stuck with more of the bill to house all those criminals. Are you sure you’ve thought this through?
That pretty much sums up the effectiveness of RTW legislation.
Off Topic Heads Up: What you will likely not be hearing about from the Obama administration.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/19/Christian-Holocaust-Underway-in-Iraq-as-USA-and-World-Looks-On
Addenda to the above …
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100280803/iraqi-christians-are-raped-murdered-and-driven-from-their-homes-and-the-west-is-silent/
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Off topic again …
Our savior, Barack Obama —
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
Enjoy!
Mr Blueberry Pie loves to hate Obama… Ok have fun….
The right wing think tank puts out a report? How about the actual policy and how it has hurt those states. Why would we want anything to protect workers right?
The very companies who are giving up their American citizenship to avoid taxes and want to pay Chinese wages here are the most important thing to building a fascist society right?
http://governor.mo.gov/news/archive/gov-nixon-issues-statement-failure-right-work-garner-votes-necessary-final-passage
Right to work is the first step to them bankrupting a state. Just like a company they bankrupt it, start complaining about losses, then say they have to sell everything,
I am for the right of workers period…
Any person who shops or buys foreign products without trying to find American first cares none about jobs. The false pretense everybody should do whatever the boss says…
Bottom Line the Koch tea party policies are hurting Americans… Conservative policies are not new…. Reganomics has created many of the policies that brought us to where we are right now… Privatize away and then continue to explain how wall street and employers are more important that quality of life for Americans..
What jobs do we really have … path to flippin burgers for the rich?
I wish we could just take a few states and tea bagger can all move there, get absolutely no fed subsidies , they can let companies pollute all arhey want, have child labor, no social security or vets benefiys paid out to those who live there…. Poverty will not be subsidized by the rest of us and you can live in the false Ayn rand (who dies collecting SSI) Utopia
Collecting a fed check and voting Tea Party or GOP is hypocrisy
Independents are too often forced to vote for a dem because all the GOP wants is to reverse the new deal and rid all social safety nets by diverting the money to corporate subsidies and war contracts
Americans do not want to live by the Koch and Billionaires club of fascist rule by corporation..
I will be voting 2014 and will get as many voters to polls as I can This will not be another 2010
Dewey you don’t care about workers; you care about the power and control to extort companies and force them to pay based on demands rather than value or merit.
The days of the oppressive boss are over; too much competition (Even more when the economy is healthy-vote republican.)
Paying workers unfairly is counterproductive. Companies realized back in the seventies that happy workers were more productive.
Workers are valuable based on their skills, training, and dedication to work. The value of work is not something that can be determined by a hostile angry collective mob.
“Any person who shops or buys foreign products without trying to find American first cares none about jobs.”
That’s a bunch of leftist hooey! People have a responsibility to seek the best possible product for the best possible price. Why? Because that is how we keep companies honest and worthy of our loyalty. I would prefer that American companies produced the best products at the best price but when our government loads our companies down with higher tax rates and regulation costs, and when unions workers demand budget busting wages and benefits, there is no way that companies can compete with foreign manufacturers. Both companies and workers have to be supported by our government so they can compete in a world wide market. That’s the reality my friend.
“The false pretense everybody should do whatever the boss says…”
If you don’t like the boss get another job OR start a company and be the boss. (Boy would you be in for a rude awakening!)
“the Koch tea party policies are hurting Americans”
Dewey this is the stupidest thing you have ever said. The Tea Party is not setting policy. Your collectivist friends are.
“Reganomics has created many of the policies that brought us to where we are right now”
Name them and explain how.
“Privatize away and then continue to explain how wall street and employers are more important that quality of life for Americans.”
Dewey we have explained to you before that this is America; we value private property in this country. Wall Street is not America. It is simply a place where stocks and other investments are tracked and traded. The companies are individual, not collective. People can buy into the stock market or not…their choice. The individual companies create good paying jobs for a lot of Americans and produce products we use and enjoy…that IS valuable. The quality of life in America has been greatly improved by the innovation and products created by these companies. Employees helped to produce them and should take pride in having done so but they have their jobs, a living for their families, and that pride, because somebody risked everything on an idea, it’s development and it’s production.
Ultimately the “quality” of your life is your own responsibility. You live in a free nation and you have a lot of options and choices…learn to value that and then go forth and make a life of quality for yourself!
“GOP wants is to reverse the new deal and rid all social safety nets by diverting the money to corporate subsidies and war contracts..”
These are all lies. You are a silly dupe. The GOP would like to empower people so they can accumulate wealth just like the democrat union bosses and political leaders…the Clintons got rich on leftist politics, the Obama’s will too. They feed you crumbs from their table and lies about the intentions of the GOP and you fall for it hook, line, and sinker.
“Americans do not want to live by the Koch and Billionaires club of fascist rule by corporation.”
Please identify a Koch law that oppresses you.