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Right-to-Work Works.(a discussion of right-to-work laws which have weakened the power of unions)(Brief Article)
Stan Greer, Real Earnings Higher in Right to Work States: Evidence from The AFL-CIO Empire, National Institute for Labor Relations Research (nilrr. org)
Right-to-work laws, which make it illegal to mandate union membership as a prerequisite for holding a job, weaken the power of unions. Since the first right-to-work laws went into effect during the 1940s, unions have contended that they therefore lower wages for union and non-union workers alike.
Using an index first developed by the American Federation of Teachers, a union, Stan Greer finds that the union claim is false. After adjusting for costs of living alone, non-right-to-work states and right-to-work states show essentially the ...
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