VA Governor tells NH to go “Right To Work”

On September 27, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

Virginia’s solid Right To Work foundation has helped keep its state budget in the black, its people working, and  made it an attractive place for businesses to locate.   More importantly it allows Virginia to lived up to Patrick Henry’s words demanding “Liberty.”

New Hampshire has the opportunity to live up to its motto and “Live Free” by overriding Gov. John Lynch’s veto of freedom.

Lynch, who is heavily financed by forced-union dues given to him by Big Labor bosses, chose to thwart freedom for working men and women. Somehow, Lynch decided it is more just to require people to be  forced to pay tributes union bosses against their will that to let struggling workers in New Hampshire decide if they should keep their own wages or choose to share some with a union.  Encourage your legislators to override Gov. Lynch’s veto of “Freedom” and “Liberty.”

From the Washington Post:

He received the loudest applause when he mentioned the need to tap the nation’s natural resources as part of a complete energy plan and to turn New Hampshire into a right-to-work state.

“We have a country that is now facing some tough issues,” he said. “It is time for a change.”

 

 

 

 

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Right to Work Wins Again

On September 21, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

Development Counselors International (DCI) ranked the top five and the bottom five states, in terms of what states provide an economic climate most favorable to business. The rankings show that states following right-to-work laws held the top five spots, while states following more union-friendly rules held the bottom five spots.

DCI asked corporate executives and representatives to name the three states they thought provided the “most favorable business climates,” and the three states least favorable to business. Texas ranked #1 in the final survey results, while California ranked dead last at #50.

DCI provided this commentary on the results:

  • Common themes of low operating costs and a pro-business environment emerge for the top five [original emphasis]. Positive responses emphasized costs, low taxes and incentive offerings, while negative opinions cited high taxes, anti-business climates and fiscal problems/state deficits.
  • Here are the top five states, in order: Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida.
  • Here are the bottom five states, starting with with the worst ranked: California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan. (more…)
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Time for Kentucky to Get Right to Work

On August 30, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

Enacting a Right to Work law in Kentucky would be a boon for jobs and economic prosperity — but don’t just take our word for it.  The Bowling Green Daily News agrees:

Gov. Steve Beshear and the Democrat-controlled House are beholden to labor unions in this state and for that reason, year after year we continue to lose companies and jobs to other Southern states because Kentucky is not a right-to-work state.

Right-to-work laws protect workers’ freedoms by not forcing them to pay dues to a union upon becoming employed or throughout employment. Nearly any citizen in a right-to-work state is protected by a state’s right-to-work law.

Labor unions make up less than 9 percent of Kentucky’s workforce, so it would make sense that Beshear and the House would have more concern for the majority of the workforce. Sadly, they don’t. They need the unions, who contribute millions of dollars every election year through political action committees or other ways to encourage the governor and those in the House to follow part of their agenda, which is not allowing Kentucky to become a right-to-work state.

Kentucky is the only Southern state not to have a right-to-work law. For that reason, many companies don’t even consider our state when choosing plant locations.

Business 101 would tell you that this is simply bad business. The governor and House are hindering our state because they ignore reality. Shame on them. It reflects poor leadership and it holds our state back when competing for jobs that could be coming to Kentucky.

Simpson County Judge-Executive Jim Henderson is a strong supporter of the right-to-work concept.

Henderson said on a number of occasions during the process of trying to get a company to come to Franklin, it was eliminated because of not being a right-to-work state. He said it was communicated through correspondence and other means of communication that not having a right-to-work law is why companies aren’t coming to his city.One only has to look at companies such as Nissan North America. The company admitted that one reason it decided to move its headquarters from California to Tennessee and not Kentucky was because of the lower business costs. Interestingly enough, the average Kentuckian has to work 13 months to make what an average Tennessean can in one year. (more…)

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It’s Becoming Quite Obvious — Top Five States for Business are Right To Work States

On August 24, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

Another study has clearly demonstrated that enacting Right to Work laws is a critical factor in creating jobs and a pro-growth environment for your state.  Pollina Real Estate has chosen the top 5 states for jobs and according to their report, all five are Right to Work states:

 

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Right To Work & Thomas Jefferson

On June 30, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

From BigGovernment.com:

Virginia’s Former-Governor George Allen again rises to defend Right To Work and the principles of liberty embraced by our Founding Fathers against attacks from the Obama Administration and the acquiescent U.S. Senate.

It is time for all freedom-loving people to stand up against the forces of tyranny that have taken hold of numerous government agencies such as the NLRB. It is time that elected officials and candidates for office to declare their positions for or against individual liberty. If for liberty, then they must act to oppose the tyranny of forced unionism and its suppression of the individual. (For Governor Allen’s full Op-Ed in Politico click here.)

President Thomas Jefferson defined the sum of good government as, “a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

Those words are the uplifting principles of a free society.

Unfortunately these principles are being ignored by the powers in Washington.

Virginia deserves leaders unafraid to speak out against this administration, the federal bureaucracy and the union bosses who seek to undermine our free market economy and who will fight for Virginia’s working families.

The National Labor Relations Board’s complaint against Boeing’s locating some production facilities in South Carolina is an attack on the founding principles of our country. It’s also an attack on the freedom and competitiveness of every state with right-to-work laws -– including Virginia.

It is the responsibility of Washington leaders and candidates running for office to speak out against the dangerous precedent of the NLRB’s assault on the liberty of working men and women everywhere and the rights and prerogatives of the people in the States.

It’s time for this over-reaching federal government to get out of our lives and stop encroaching on the economic freedom of Virginia — and all right-to-work states.

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CNBC: Right To Work Virginia — Best Place to Do Business; Right To Work Texas #2

On June 29, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

CNBC has rated Right to Work state Virginia as the best state to do business in America.

The Governor credits the state’s Right To Work status as a key component to success. Governor Bob McDonnell“Our focus, from day one of this administration, has been to put in place the policies that will help private sector businesses create those jobs in the Commonwealth and get our economy back on track,” he said. “We’ve done that by keeping taxes low, getting government spending under control, having a strong Right to Work law, and making smart investments in transportation, economic development and higher education.”

Four of the top five states to do business in America are Right to Work states.  All of the worst five states to do business in America are non-Right to Work or compulsory-unionism states.

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16 attorneys general join NLRB-Boeing South Carolina employees; NRTW to file appeal for 3 workers denied voice in lawsuit

On June 12, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

Sixteen state attorney generals try to stand-up to the Obama NLRB attempt to trample states’ rights hours after the NLRB rejected efforts by Boeing employees to be heard.  From Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard:

COLUMBIA — Attorneys general from South Carolina and 15 other states Thursday weighed in on a lawsuit filed by the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that its complaint against Boeing for building an assembly plant in North Charleston after a strike by Washington state workers hurts states’ abilities to keep manufacturing jobs.

Alan Wilson and Greg Abbott, the attorneys general in South Carolina and Texas, respectively, asserted in a brief that “the NLRB’s proposed action will harm the interests of the very unionized workers whom the general counsel’s Complaint seeks to protect.”

“State policymakers should be free to choose to enact right-to-work laws — or to choose not to enact them — without worrying about retaliation from the NLRB,” the two officials wrote.

“It is logical that some employers will simply avoid creating new jobs or facilities in non-right-to-work States in the first place.”

The brief also was signed by attorneys general in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.

It points out that the attorneys general represent right-to-work and unionized states, although only two of the signers — Colorado and Michigan — fall into the latter category.

South Carolina is a right-to-work state where individual employees can join unions voluntarily, but unions cannot force membership across entire worksites. (more…)

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Va. Attorney General Cuccinelli Prepares to Defend Virginia Right to Work Law

On June 6, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

Virginia’s stalwart Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is monitoring attempts by the Washington DC airports authority to require union-only labor and will file suit if a “project labor agreement” were put in place, contrary to Virginia’s Right to Work laws.

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