Right to Work (and to Prosper)

As Arthur B. Laffer and Stephen Moore recently noted in the Wall Street Journal, from 2000 to 2009 right-to-work states “grew faster in nearly every respect than their union-shop counterparts: 54.6% versus 41.1% in gross state product, 53.3% versus 40.6% in personal income, 11.9% versus 6.1% in population, and 4.1% versus -0.6% in payrolls.”

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Union Thuggery Run Amok

"...disturbing signs of a union going mad over its own irrelevance and taking up more goonish tactics."

Editorial: Union Thuggery Run Amok - Investors.com

Owners vs. Players in Football’s Labor Dispute

"But the N.F.L. isn’t capitalist in any traditional sense. The league is much more like the trusts that dominated American business in the late nineteenth century, before they were outlawed. Its goal is not to embrace competition but to tame it, making the owners’ businesses less risky and more profitable. Unions are often attacked for trying to interfere with the natural workings of the market, but in the case of football it’s the owners, not the union, who are the real opponents of the free market. They have created a socialist paradise for themselves that happens to bring with it capitalist-size profits."

Owners vs. Players in Football’s Labor Dispute : The New Yorker

Find the Bully

Tea Partier: "Leave me alone!"

Wisconsin Public Union Employee: "Give me your money!"

Ready for Unionized Airport Security?

"Here's the fundamental problem with public-employee unions: They exist to compete with, and undermine, public priorities."

Strassel: Ready for Unionized Airport Security? - WSJ.com

Catholic Teaching’s Pro-Union Bias

"Just because something is called a union does not make it automatically good and moral."

Catholic teaching’s pro-union bias | Acton Institute