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On Wednesday, Republican legislative leaders filed a bill that would ensure North Carolinians are not coerced into joining labor unions.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Left’s latest pro-union resurgence discredits workers
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Oxfam’s annual ranking of states with free-market policies is out, and once again its title is proving to be good clickbait for left-leaning policy groups and news media.
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2022 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A teacher in Sacramento, California, was paid out a stunning $190,000 to resign from his post after an investigation found that he used his position to push his own political beliefs, including his admiration for Antifa and communism, on his students.
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2022 @ 12:44 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Right-to-Work laws, which simply state that employees can not be compelled to belong to or pay dues to a union as a condition of employment, are decidedly pro-worker and pro-growth.
Published: Friday, April 29th, 2022 @ 7:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Unions and their Democrat supporters have eyed North Carolina’s strong economy and manufacturing industry for years, but lately the heat has been turning up amid COVID business lockdowns, labor shortages, and a looming 2022 election.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 6:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“The right to live includes the right to work.” That simple statement opens the text of a state law that has helped boost North Carolina’s economic competitiveness for nearly 75 years.
Published: Thursday, October 14th, 2021 @ 9:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Graham Piro of the Washington Free Beacon details the latest court fight against mandatory union dues.
Published: Friday, June 11th, 2021 @ 5:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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55% of N.C. voters think the nation is headed in the wrong direction, while 39% think we are on the right path.
Published: Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 @ 12:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Graham Piro of the Washington Free Beacon reports on labor unions’ response to the president’s bloated infrastructure package.
Published: Monday, April 12th, 2021 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly will consider a measure to enshrine North Carolina’s right-to-work policies in the state constitution.
Published: Friday, April 9th, 2021 @ 8:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The vast majority of respondents to a new John Locke Foundation poll of likely 2022 general election voters in North Carolina support the state’s right-to-work law and would support a right-to-work amendment to the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Monday, March 22nd, 2021 @ 9:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new year and new members haven’t solved tensions within the N.C. Council of State.
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 @ 10:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republicans can take a breath, even if their signature red is mixed with myriad shades of blue.
Published: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 @ 4:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Reopening the economy during COVID-19 is a hotly contested issue in the race for N.C. Commissioner of Labor.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 @ 11:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In February 2019, after months of negotiation, Western North Carolina’s Mission Hospital was sold to HCA Healthcare, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital company.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2020 @ 6:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina law bans government agencies from making contracts with unions and bans public employees from striking.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 1:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Democratic majority in the U.S. House has approved a massive pro-labor union bill that’s unlikely to make it past the Republican-led U.S. Senate.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2020 @ 12:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s “gig economy” would take a major hit under a pro-labor union bill that may soon be heard in the U.S. House, experts say.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 @ 2:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina ranks No. 19 overall and is rising among all states when combining economic and personal freedoms, according to a major national report released today that used more than 230 variables to set the rankings.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2016 @ 3:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Prior to Roy Cooper's joint appearance with Hillary Clinton and President Obama, McCrory Campaign Manager Russell Peck released the following statement
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2016 @ 10:26 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The Pat McCrory Committee released the following statement after news the N.C. AFL-CIO decided to formally endorse Roy Cooper for governor after attacking Governor McCrory for 3 years.
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 8:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina is one of only a handful of states that enjoy the highest credit ratings from all the major bond-rating agencies.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Friday, September 11, the Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom joined several other state-based legal and policy organizations in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the freedom of employees to choose what political causes they support. In a joint amicus brief in the case of...
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 11:53 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Over the past few decades, much of American higher education has become ideologically left wing. You might have thought, however, that business schools could resist the trend. You'd be mistaken.
Published: Monday, March 9th, 2015 @ 5:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Before an entrepreneur considers whether to expand his business or move to a new location, he typically goes through a checklist that includes most, if not all, of these items...
Published: Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 @ 10:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government employee unions largely were responsible for the re-election of President Obama, and will seek payback through weaker right-to-work laws and approval of collective bargaining rights for 21 million health care workers under Obamacare, union critic Mallory Factor says.
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 @ 2:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Still puzzled about how North Carolina can rank so highly on some national measures of business climate, and still have among the worst-performing economies in the country?
Published: Friday, July 27th, 2012 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new report on economic competitiveness from the American Legislative Economic Council shows North Carolina is ranked 23rd among the states on the 2012 ALEC-Laffer Economic Outlook Rankings.
Published: Friday, April 20th, 2012 @ 6:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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