Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Right to Work Key For Economic Recovery

From the National Right to Work Committee's newsletter:

From July 1, 2008 through July 1, 2009, a net total of more than 339,000 Americans moved from forced-unionism states to Right to Work states.

And since April 1, 2000, there has been a net transfer of nearly five million Americans to Right to Work states.

And multi-year data supplied by the Statistical Information Service (SIS) of the IRS show that tax filers who move to a Right to Work state consistently report higher adjusted gross incomes than do tax filers moving out of a Right to Work state. [read more pdf]

I am not against or for anyone who wants to join a union. That's a personal decision. But if you are pressured or coercised to join a union that's a different story. That's similar to what what happened in the old Soviet Union. You were forced to be a Communist. You did not have the right to choose to join or not.

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