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Study: Right to Work Law Would Have Significantly Helped Indiana Workers, Families During Past Four Decades

Anthony Riedel — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:37:20 -0500

As Indiana's state legislators discuss the merits of passing Right to Work protections for Hoosier workers, a group of scholars released a study last week confirming (pdf) workers and their families in Right to Work states benefit from workplace freedom in a very tangible way. From a press release announcing their findings:

Improving the per-capita income of Indiana workers and creating more job opportunities for Hoosiers would be among the major benefits of Indiana becoming the 23rd state to pass a right-to-work (RTW) law, according to research released today by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. In addition, statewide voter polling results show Hoosiers favoring adoption of RTW by a 3-to-1 margin.

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Keep Up With the Latest from the National Right to Work Foundation

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:58:14 -0400

The National Right to Work Foundation is just the place to get the latest developments on the fight against compulsory unionism. There are several ways to learn about the daily developments in America’s Right to Work movement:

Video: Big Labor Opposes Freedom of Choice

Patrick Semmens — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:41:21 -0400

Yesterday, Senate Democrats held hearings and called on Members of the National Labor Relations Board to speak about their views of the NLRB.

Member Wilma Liebman, one of the most fiercely pro-compulsory unionism members ever to sit on the National Labor Relations Board, testified about what she described as “a loss of confidence in the board and its processes.”

To understand what she means by that, watch the following video clip of her testifying about the NLRB back in December before a House committee. Not long after the four minute mark of the video, Liebman bemoans the fact that, according to her, the currently NLRB seems too preoccupied with “freedom of choice”:

“The Board has said for the first time that freedom of choice – which is to say the freedom to reject unionization – prevails in the statutory scheme over promoting collective bargaining.”

So there you have it: Big Labor’s real problem with recent NLRB decisions is that the Board is protecting freedom of choice too strongly, thus allowing workers to reject unionization.