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55 Orgs to Missouri Legislature: States Benefit from Right to Work
July 29, 2015
Dear Members of the Missouri State Senate and General Assembly:
We represent organizations from across the country dedicated to promoting worker freedom. Our organizations’ nonpartisan analysisshows that increasing worker freedom produces greater prosperity andgrowth in state economies, and we urge you to consider these benefits asyou contemplate “Right to Work” in Missouri.
The data are clear: Right to Work states outperform their forced-unioncounterparts. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Right toWork states have experienced greater job growth, population growth,and compensation growth over every significant measured amount of
time. Adjusted for cost of living, workers in Right to Work states earnmore than workers in non-Right to Work states. And union membershipactually grew in many states after they passed Right to Work legislation.
Missouri is surrounded by Right to Work states and continues to lageconomically. But it is not just border states benefitting at Missouri’sexpense. According to IRS data, from 1992 to 2011, Missouri lost wellover $3 billion of income to Florida, Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina – all Right to Work states.
In many of our states, citizens have been fortunate to enjoy the benefitsof Right to Work, and our economies have prospered as a result. Forthose citizens in the states that have not yet passed this crucial reform,we continue to advocate for and explain the benefits of increasingworker freedom.
As part of this effort, many of our organizations are participating in National Employee Freedom Week later this summer, in which weeducate union workers about the freedoms available to them – how toopt out of the union entirely in Right to Work states, and how to be freedfrom certain dues in forced union states.
In years past, hundreds of workers across the country chose to freethemselves of union obligations. Undoubtedly, there are many workersright here in Missouri who wish to be freed from union membership andall corresponding obligations. We believe every worker in Americashould be afforded that basic liberty.
The undersigned coalition of public policy research and grassrootsadvocacy organizations strongly supports Right to Work. Right to Work
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would mean freedom for workers, accountability for unions, and anenormous boost for the Missouri economy.
Sincerely,
Patrick Werner, Missouri State DirectorAmericans for Prosperity
Dan Greenberg, PresidentAdvance Arkansas Institute
Sean Noble, PresidentAmerican Encore
Lisa B. Nelson, CEOAmerican Legislative Exchange Council
Coley Jackson, PresidentAmericans for Competitive Enterprise
Richard Manning, PresidentAmericans for Limited Government
Grover Norquist, PresidentAmericans for Tax Reform
John Mielke, PresidentAssociated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin
Justin Owen, PresidentBeacon Center of Tennessee
John A. Charles, Jr., President & CEOCascade Policy Institute (Oregon)
Jeffrey Mazzella, PresidentCenter for Individual Freedom
Matt Patterson, Executive DirectorCenter for Worker Freedom
Kim Crockett, Chief Operating Officer, EVP and General CounselCenter of the American Experiment (Minnesota)
Matthew J. Brouillette, President and CEOCommonwealth Foundation (Pennsylvania)
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Iain Murray, Vice President of StrategyCompetitive Enterprise Institute
Jonathan Haines, DirectorFederalism In Action
Brian Minnich, Vice PresidentFreedom Foundation
Marc Short, PresidentFreedom Partners
Andrew Clark, PresidentGeneration Opportunity
Louie Hunter, Chair
Georgia Center Right Coalition
Kelly McCutchen, PresidentGeorgia Public Policy Foundation
Burly Cain, Executive DirectorGOAL Advocacy (New Mexico)
Wyane Hoffman, PresidentIdaho Freedom Foundation
John Tillman, CEOIllinois Policy Institute
Don Racheter, Immediate Past ChairmanIowans for Right to Work
Sal J. Nuzzo, Vice President of PolicyJames Madison Institute (Florida)
Jon Sanders, Director of Regulatory StudiesJohn Locke Foundation (North Carolina)
Dave Trabert, PresidentKansas Policy Institute
Seton Motley, PresidentLess Government
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Tonya Kiper,Liberty Foundation of America (Oklahoma)
Dee Hodges, PresidentMaryland Taxpayers Association
Pete Sepp, President National Taxpayers Union
Victor Joecks, Executive Vice President Nevada Policy Research Institute
Carla J. Sonntag, President and Founder New Mexico Business Coalition
Jonathon Small, Executive Vice President
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
Kevin P. Kane, PresidentPelican Institute for Public Policy (Louisiana)
Don Racheter, PresidentPublic Interest Institute (Iowa)
Lori Sanders, Outreach Director & Senior FellowR Street Institute
Mike Stenhouse, CEORhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Paul J. Gessing, PresidentRio Grande Foundation (New Mexico)
J. Scott Moody, CEOState Budget Solutions
Maureen Blum, PresidentStrategic Coalitions & Initiatives
David Williams, PresidentTaxpayers Protection Alliance
Judson Phillips, FounderTea Party Nation
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Joseph Bast, President and CEOThe Heartland Institute
Lisa B. Nelson, CEOThe Jeffersonian Project
Daniel Garza, Executive DirectorThe LIBRE Initiative
F. Vincent Vernuccio, JD, Director of Labor PolicyThe Mackinac Center for Public Policy (Michigan)
Mike Quatrano, Director of Civic EngagementThe Maine Heritage Policy Center
Amy Ridenour, Chairman
The National Center for Public Policy Research
Michael W. Thompson, Chairman and PresidentThomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy (Virginia)
Carl Bearden, Executive DirectorUnited for Missouri
Rose Bogaert , ChairWayne County Taxpayers Association (Michigan)
Scott Manley, Vice President of Government RelationsWisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce
Carol Platt Liebau, PresidentYankee Institute (Connecticut)