OBAMA SAYS ‘RIGHT-TO-WORK’ IS THE RIGHT TO WORK — FOR LESS. NOT SO FAST

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Human Events:

The recent enactment of a right-to-work law in Michigan, of all places, provoked a remarkable comment from President Obama: “These so-called ‘right to work’ laws, they don’t have to do with economics; they have everything to do with politics,” he said. “What they’re really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money.”

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It’s true that wages in right-to-work (RTW) states tend to be lower than in non-right-to-work (NRTW) states. However, adjusted for the cost of living, per capita disposable personal income is $2,000 greater in RTW states than in NRTW states, according to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research. The organization is a research facility for the general public, scholars and students and provides analysis and research necessary “to expose the inequities of compulsory unionism,” according to its mission.

Moreover, says the institute, over the past decade, real employee compensation in RTW states grew four times as much as in NRTW states – 12.5 percent versus just 3.1 percent.