Posted on 08/13/2014 11:02:55 AM PDT by MichCapCon
If you listen to opponents of right-to-work laws, the claims are dire. But if laws allowing workers the choice of whether to pay money to a union lead to such alleged problems, why are so many people moving from forced unionism states to right-to-work states?
My colleague Michael Van Beek takes a look at a new study by Richard Vedder, an Ohio University professor and member of the Mackinac Center Board of Scholars, and researcher Jonathon Robe. Long story short, they show significant gains in income and jobs for right-to-work states.
But they also include the following statistic: “[T]he proportion of the American population living in a right-to-work environment has steadily grown, jumping from about 29 percent in 1970 to 46 percent by 2013.”
Probably the most important economic measure is population growth. In the policy literature, it is often difficult to tease out how much of an effect a single policy has on a state’s economy, but people deciding to uproot their lives and move somewhere helps encapsulate the bulk of what many people desire.
In that measure, right-to-work states are dominating.
The same reason people rob banks...that’s where the money is!
People merely go where the jobs are.
It is easier to get a job in a RTW state.
I was born and raised in Michigan, and finally moved out after living there for 40 years. After witnessing industry after industry being decimated by outsourcing, including the ones I worked in, I finally had enough. The economy there is a shell of its former self, and the industries will never come back. And what work that is there is taken up by boomers working in service industries, and illegals who are swamping southeastern Michigan.
RTW was too little, too late, and negated by NAFTA and GATT.
Not rocket science here.
The cost of doing business in a RTW state is less than a compulsory union state.
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