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Jobs continue to pour out of pro-union states like Illinois and into states with more free-market policies, a report based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows.
Right-to-work (RTW) states have added 1.3 million jobs since 2020, while non-RTW states lost 1.1 million jobs, according to a study by economist Todd Nesbit and public policy analyst Michael LaFaive. RTW laws bar the termination of an employee for refusal to pay union dues if they don’t want to.
“During the pandemic, there was a huge out-migration from states like Illinois, New York, New Jersey and California into the southern states like Texas, Florida, North Carolina an others, and all of those states happen to be right-to-work,” said Lee Schalk, vice president of policy at the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Schalk notes that Illinois recently lost major companies like Caterpillar and Boeing to right-to-work states. MORE
It’s no coincidence that Unions are stronger in the more Nazi-like states – such as Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and California.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
The big city Death-Spiral of dwindling tax bases!
The Chinese are licking their collective chops at the prospect of buying prime real estate for pennies on worthless dollar!
This loss of jobs bothers high level apparatchiks in Communist states not at all. They know their fellow travelers in the Federal government to employ 87,000 IRS agents to go hit those workers wherever they go, and use those Federal taxes to see that those particular true believing State goverments want for nothing.
Also, they look forward to the not-too-distant time, perhaps
as soon as the next stolen “election”, when they can shed pretense and simply compel newly enslaved laborors to do what they want, where they want, and when they want.
That’s where Communism always ends up.
We will be no different.
In a few years, we will no longer be concerned with a “Right To Work”.
Because by then we will have no right NOT to.
Civil service unions are the worst, and Teachers Unions are the worst of the worst.
every union job I worked priced itself out of business. labor rates climbed, productivity did not, you could not learn another job at the same site, and the price of the product exceeded what buyers were willing to pay.