Right to Work is about Freedom and Jobs not Political Parties

On May 1, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

President Obama, pandering to a crowd of Democrat party AFL-CIO union activists, attacked Right to Work laws as being more about politics than economics when the inverse is true — opposition to Right to Work laws is about the Big Labor-owned Democrat party not economics.

The President’s own Department of Commerce’s proves our point:

Somethings never CHANGE, no matter how much we HOPE it does.

Today the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis posted annual personal income data for 2011 on its web site. The data show that Right to Work states continue to enjoy a substantial income growth advantage over forced-unionism states. The Right to Work growth advantage is especially strong when it comes to private-sector compensation – that is, the wages, salaries, bonuses and benefits businesses provide for their employees.

From 2010 to 2011 alone, private-sector compensation increased by 2.2% in the 22 Right to Work states, after adjusting for inflation with the U.S. Labor Department’s consumer price index (CPI-U). In the 28 compulsory-unionism states, real private-sector compensation increased by just 1.7%. (Just this month, Indiana became the 23rd Right to Work state as the law banning forced union dues and fees signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels in early February took effect.)

Over the past 10 years, from 2001 to 2011, real private-sector compensation in Right to Work states grew by 12.5%. That increase is four times as great as forced-unionism states’ aggregate gain of just 3.1%. (more…)

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Indiana More Jobs, Right To Work Cited as Factor

On April 20, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

From FOX 59:

Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ: STLD), the nation’s fifth largest producer of carbon steel products, announced plans to expand its operations here, creating approximately 50 new jobs by 2013.

Barry Schneider, vice president and general manager of Steel Dynamics’ engineered bar products division. “The recent enactment of the right-to-work legislation is further evidence of Indiana’s commitment to providing the most competitive business environment possible for global companies like us to grow.”

The company will invest $76 million to expand its engineered bar products division to increase the mill’s capacity to produce special-bar-quality (SBQ) steel bars and the site’s product offerings. Facility upgrades and new equipment installation are expected to be complete by the end of summer next year.

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The Chicago Way — Teacher’s Prepare to Strike

On April 19, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

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Teachers at more than 200 Chicago schools overwhelmingly favor a plan to walk off the job in protest, Chicago Teachers Union Boss Karen Lewis said. Lewis said a number of schools have taken “mock strike votes,” and the majority favor work stoppage, NBC Chicago reports.  She says that teacher’s are being treated with “disrespect.”

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Another Feather in Gov. Walker’s Cap

On April 17, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

Good economic news continues to flow from Wisconsin where Gov. Scott Walker’s reforms are taking hold. The Wall Street Journal notes that by standing up to the union bosses, Walker was able to reduce the tax burden on home owners in Badger country:

The public employee unions and other liberals are confident that Wisconsin voters will turn out Governor Scott Walker in a recall election later this year, but not so fast. That may turn out to be as wrong as some of their other predictions as Badger State taxpayers start to see tangible benefits from Mr. Walker’s reforms—such as the first decline in statewide property taxes in a dozen years.

On Monday Mr. Walker’s office released new data that show the property tax bill for the median home fell by 0.4% in 2011, as reported by Wisconsin’s municipalities. Property taxes, which are the state’s largest revenue source and mainly fund K-12 schools, have risen every year since 1998—by 43% overall. The state budget office estimates that the typical homeowner’s bill would be some $700 higher without Mr. Walker’s collective-bargaining overhaul and budget cuts.

The median home value did fall in 2011, by about 2.3%, which no doubt influenced the slight downward trend. But then values also fell in 2009 and 2010, by similar amounts, and the state’s take from the average taxpayer still climbed by 2.1% and 1.5%, respectively. In absolute terms homeowners won’t see large dollar benefits year over year, but any hold-the-line tax respite is both rare and welcome in this age of ever-expanding government. (more…)

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Move Over Occupy Wall Street, SEIU’s 99% Spring is taking over

On April 16, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

The beginning of (forced-dues financed) SEIU Propaganda Minister Scott Courtney’s e-mail is pictured above.  He proclaims that it is “a chance for all of us to come together to create a new future for our country.” Not much of a claim since there is no “old future” for any country.  SEIU’s rhetoric is as incendiary as it is nonsensical, and all-the-while illustrating that SEIU considers itself a political party and not a mere labor union.

Perhaps it is time for the IRS to evaluate SEIU’s political spending and see it has been paying ts “fair share” of taxes.  With many college students with out jobs and the money to pay for gas in this Obama Economy, maybe SEIU will attract a few soldiers for its war on workers and their rights to have Right To Work freedom.

What is SEIU teaching at its indoctrination camps? “This week, we’ll learn to tell the story of our economy and what went wrong.”

Will SEIU teach that under the two SEIU supported Democrat congresses our economy imploded?  That SEIU backed President Barack Obama, Senate Leader Harry Reid, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi piled more debt on college students and kindergarteners than ever in the history of America while simultaneous destroying the economic engine?

Will SEIU teach about its involvement, as well as, the AFL-CIO’s and ACORN’s involvement in the housing crisis?  You know the answer; it is NO.  But, if you don’t have the facts on your side, the next best thing is propaganda or as SEIU calls it: The 99% Spring.

More from the SEIU’s 99% Spring e-mail:

Last year, from the Wisconsin workers who took over their state capitol to Occupy Wall Street, we saw a new movement in America using direct action to highlight the unprecedented inequality that’s destroying our country.

The 99% Spring is our chance to maintain and broaden that changemaking [sic] energy, and learn how we can take action to challenge corporate power, end tax giveaways to the 1%, fight the influence of money in politics, and create an economy that works for all of us.

This week, we’ll run more than 900 trainings in union halls, living rooms, places of worship [does this impact tax status?], community centers and parks.

 

 

 

 

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WP’s Lane: Progressives Should Oppose Big Labor’s Walker Recall

On April 13, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

From the “progressive” Washington Post’s Charles Lane, an exposure of public sector unionism and its unequaled influence on elected officials and the cost of government:

Of course, collective bargaining in the public sector is inherently contrary to majority rule. It transfers basic public-policy decisions — namely, the pay and working conditions that taxpayers will offer those who work for them — out of the public square and behind closed doors. Progressive Wisconsin has a robust “open meetings” law covering a wide range of government gatherings except — you guessed it — collective bargaining with municipal or state employees. So much for transparency.

Even worse, to the extent that unions bankroll the campaigns of the officials with whom they will be negotiating — and they often do — they sit on both sides of the table.

More from Lane:

The furious drive to oust Walker is the sequel to last year’s dramatic battle over his plan to limit collective bargaining by public-sector unions. Walker won that fight, despite tumultuous pro-union demonstrations in and around the state capitol and a boycott of votes on the bill by the Democratic minority in the legislature. (more…)

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Right To Work SC Continues Ride on Michelin, Bridgestone, Continental

On April 12, 2012, By NRTW Committee Staff

“Michelin, Bridgestone, Continental Shift Tire Industry Locus to South Carolina”

“The migration of tire production out of Ohio to southern states has been spurred by state and local government tax incentives and the states’ right-to-work laws that make union organizing more difficult. Auto makers, such as BMW AG and Volkswagen AG have set up plants in the South,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

Caterpillar “is already racing to expand capacity for mining equipment and has such a big backlog that it won’t be able to deliver on some orders for large mining trucks until 2014. Last month it spent $20 million to triple the size of its Sumter, S.C., plant that produces hydraulic cylinders.”

 

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