Posted on 04/15/2022 9:10:31 AM PDT by Wuli
Angela Phillips grew up in Ohio and has run a family-owned manufacturing business there since 2009. In 2018 she was looking to expand the firm and, given her years of experience with labor unions, believed it made sense to grow in a right-to-work state. So in 2020 she opened a Phillips Tube Group plant right across the border in Richmond, Ind., which now employs more than 25 people.
Phillips Tube isn’t alone in crossing state lines to benefit from a right-to-work law, which frees employees from being forced to belong or pay dues to a union. We recently published a national study on the impact of these laws between bordering states, using data from more than 3,000 U.S. counties in 18 industrial sectors and in two distinct time periods.
We found that states with right-to-work protections have a higher employment share in certain industries, such as manufacturing and construction, as a percentage of total private employment. Notably, states that have enacted these laws since 2000 have a 20.7% higher manufacturing share than they otherwise would without a right-to-work law.
We conducted this study to get a clearer picture of how right-to-work laws influence the job market. Our home states, Indiana and Michigan, voted for right-to-work laws in 2012, and we thought evidence of the laws’ impact might first turn up in border counties and in more heavily unionized industries, such as the custom steel industry in which Ms. Phillips works. Why? The disruption from abrupt policy changes shows up clearly first at state borders.
Middletown, Ohio, and Richmond, Ind., where Ms. Phillips decided to open a new plant, are only 40 miles apart and are similar in terms of initial economic conditions and weather. But for an independent manufacturer, a more flexible labor market can make a big difference.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Thanks for providing a link that wasn’t behind a paywall. Very nice!
*** Hoosiers should be particularly proud of how much their state appears to have gained from adopting a right-to-work law. We found that manufacturing employment as a percentage of total private employment was more than 27% higher than it would have been absent the law.***
The Hoosier state isn’t perfect, but it does get a lot of things going in the right direction.
“Thanks for providing a link that wasn’t behind a paywall. Very nice!”
As a paid WSJ subscriber, they are now giving us such links (they call it a “permalink”). They know ANY traffic to their site/pages, will, overall, produce more “ad” clicks than does total restriction of full articles from non-subscribers. Getting their pages shared on social media by their paid subscribers is just good for their business. They see it in the “traffic” that comes back to them.
My arrangement with my employer is a salaried, "at will" agreement. It fits well with RTW. Freedom for both employee and employer.
Go away!!
Indiana is a HORRIBLE place to move into and increase the population!
City folks wouldn't like Indiana a'tall. What with all them trees and corn fields and cows and such. Better jus' to fly over and not even look down.
None of the bad stuff democrats predicted from passage of RtW has come true
Just as we predicted
And you’d be among a bunch of hicks.
Heck; that French Lick place ain’t what you think it might be, and don’t EVEN get me started about Floyds Knobs!
Now that’s some sophisticated humor right there. I’ll tell you what.
It just writes itself!
When I hear of Indiana, two words spring to mind: Judas Pence.
BTW, RTW, isn’t the only draw, is it...
https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/elanco-100m-investment-transformational
Indiana is bribing biz to cite there.
If that worked long-term, NYS wouldn’t be an economic basket case.
EVERY state is bribing - that’s a harsh word, so let us say incentivizing - businesses to locate to their area.
What part of “We won’t steal your money for 10 years” is hard to figure out?
Like any parasite, taxes shouldn’t extract so many nutrients from the host to kill it.
https://www.thebalance.com/best-and-worst-states-for-business-3193240
Don’t be shocked by the percentages in the link, as the businesses do NOT pay them.
They are paid by the consumer of whatever product the business supplies.
Taxes are a part of the cost of other supplies like land, fuel, raw material, and labor. Each of these will impact the final cost of the product.
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