Posted on 12/11/2012 4:27:29 PM PST by raptor22
The president says right-to-work laws mean "the right to work for less money." So how does he explain the fact that incomes are up in RTW states while forced unionism is a proven job killer?
Campaigning Monday in Michigan as it stood poised to become the nation's 24th right-to-work state, President Obama spoke the exact opposite of the truth to union workers at a Daimler Detroit Diesel plant in the birthplace of organized labor.
"What we shouldn't be doing," he told the small crowd, "is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages. We don't want a race to the bottom. We want a race to the top."
Yet looking at the hard numbers, becoming a right-to-work state is a direct line to the top.
According to Michigan's Mackinac Center, using data taken from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Bureau of Labor Statistics, private-sector, inflation-adjusted employee compensation in right-to-work states increased by 12% between 2001 and 2011 compared with just 3% over the same period in forced-unionization states.
These good wages came from good jobs. Employment in right-to-work states expanded 2.4% over the same stretch vs. a 3.4% decline in non-right-to-work states. Ironically, Obama is taking credit for jobs created in RTW states.
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According to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, right-to-work states (excluding Indiana, which passed a RTW law in early 2012) "were responsible for 72% of all net household job growth across the U.S. from June 2009 through September 2012."
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If the crowds were large, the boys at the New York Times would be screaming it from the rooftops...
They will be back, there are companies, right now, bidding for the brand name and they will have exactly the same ingredients.
The truth doesn’t matter to demagogues like Borat 0bama.
O’Reilly was repeating this lie on his show tonight.
obomba opposes any union against higher taxes
When you pay more taxes you are workin for less money
When the democrats fight the TEA PARTY “they are trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages”
without income taxes EVERY worker gets atleast a 10 % raise!
Michigan’s governor made another good point on OReilly last night. He said it was a matter of choice.
The real point, he said, is that if unions provide a value that Michiganders will choose to belong. If they don’t give the right bang for the buck that workers have to pay them, then they won’t choose the union.
That’s no different than anyone else I hire to do work for me. If I hire a painter and he does a crappy job, then I’ll not hire him again. If I choose to invest with ING and they lose money for me, then I’m firing them and hiring someone else.
But It’s My Choice!
If I go with the union and they do a crappy job like they did with Twinkies to where they are killing an entire company, then you bet I’m firing them long before it gets to that point.
And if I’m just coming to a new job, I look at the union and look at their track record for what they want me to pay.
If it’s lousy, I’m not hiring.
OK, we'll set the Oreo thing aside for a moment and concentrate on his watermelon aspects (green on the outside, red on the inside). Oh, wait, that's rassiss too! Dammit!
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