Right-to-work (RTW) states have added 1.3 million jobs since 2020, while the others lost 1.1 million.
Jobs continue to pour out of pro-union states like Illinois and into states with more free-market policies, a report based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.
Right-to-work (RTW) states have added 1.3 million jobs since 2020, while non-RTW states lost 1.1 million jobs, according to a study by economist Todd Nesbit and public policy analyst Michael LaFaive. RTW laws bar the termination of an employee for refusal to pay union dues if they don’t want to.
“During the pandemic, there was a huge out-migration from states like Illinois, New York, New Jersey and California into the southern states like Texas, Florida, North Carolina an others, and all of those states happen to be right-to-work,” said Lee Schalk, vice president of policy at the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Schalk notes that Illinois recently lost major companies like Caterpillar and Boeing to right-to-work states.
“It is something that is on the checklist when they’re considering to invest and what states to relocate to, right-to-work is on that list,” Schalk said.
Labor unions have their roots in communism.
If you have ever worked in a union shop you quickly learn (and are told) not to work very hard.
You can out perform every other worker on your team and still can’t get the promotnions
Unions suck and anyone who wants to be in a union is a lazy incompetent slacker.
Sad reality for Tradesmen. Union affiliation is the only thing that protects them from cheap immigrant labor.
Why would a company want to hire workers in a state were most workers are getting paid a living wage, when they can have factories in low wage “right to work for less” states and increase their profits?