Where the Good Jobs Are A New Look at Right to Work and Employment Growth

For decades, states with right-to-work (RTW) laws have consistently outpaced their compulsory-union counterparts in job creation. The latest analysis by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research found that between 2003 and 2013, private-sector employment in RTW states grew by 16.2 percent, besting non-RTW states nearly seven percentage points.