Recently the National Institute for Labor Relations Research released a new fact sheet that shows the numerous economic advantages associated with Right to Work states.

As the Fact Sheet details, Right to Work states have significant advantages in many areas including:

• Percentage Growth in Real Personal Income
• Growth in Real Manufacturing GDP
• Percentage Growth in Construction Employment
• Growth in Number of College Graduates (age 25+ with B.A.)
• Percentage Growth in Number of People/Children Covered by Private, Employer Based Health Insurance

And all those advantages are just icing on the cake. After all, the best reason for Right to Work protections is eliminating the injustice of firing employees for refusal to join or pay dues to a union.

That injustice has recognized by as wide a range of people as…

Thomas Jefferson who said: "To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical," and

Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor who said: "No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion."