Memo to Ontario: Collective bargaining benefits employers

Our brothers and sisters in Ontario are fending off a corporate-backed effort to pass a No Rights At Work law. Their version of a <strike style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.890625px;"><a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/10/bombshell-kochs-sold-oil-equipment-to.html" style="color: #336699;">Benedict Arnold</a></strike> Koch brothers' <strike>stink</strike> think tank put out a study claiming No Rights At Work would boost manufacturing and create jobs.<br /><br />Andrew Jackson, a York University professor, wrote a terrific rebuttal in the <a href="http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/right-to-work-laws-are-no-solution-to-manufacturing-job-woes/article14086461/?service=mobile" rel="nofollow">Globe and Mail.</a> He cites a slew of studies that demonstrate: <br /><ul><li><a href="http://cms.bsu.edu/-/media/WWW/DepartmentalContent/MillerCollegeofBusiness/BBR/Publications/RightToWork/RightToWork.pdf" rel="nofollow">No significant link between anti-union laws and manufacturing employmen</a>t trends (by state) in the United States.</li><li>North Carolina, which has the lowest rate of unionization in the U.S., lost a third of its manufacturing jobs in the past 10 years. </li><li>Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which have significant high-tech industries, have unionization rates well above the American average and significant high-tech industries.</li><li>A <a href="http://elibrary.worldbank.org/content/book/9780821350805">World Bank study</a> found no relationship between the rate of unionization and national economic or employment performance.</li><li>Unions reduce inequality. </li><li>Unions result in higher productivity and lower turnover. </li></ul>Read the whole thing <a href="http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/right-to-work-laws-are-no-solution-to-manufacturing-job-woes/article14086461/?service=mobile" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br />

Canada RTW4Less unions Memo to Ontario: Collective bargaining benefits employers

Our brothers and sisters in Ontario are fending off a corporate-backed effort to pass a No Rights At Work law. Their version of a Benedict Arnold Koch brothers' stink think tank put out a study claiming No Rights At Work would boost manufacturing and…

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