Missouri RTW Coalition Letter

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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)

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Missouri RTW Coalition Letter