Right To Work States Might Have More Economic Growth

See Unions vs. the Right to Work: Collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty by Robert Barro in the 2-28-11 WSJ. Excerpt:

"There is evidence that right-to-work laws—or, more broadly, the pro-business policies offered by right-to-work states—matter for economic growth. In research published in 2000, economist Thomas Holmes of the University of Minnesota compared counties close to the border between states with and without right-to-work laws (thereby holding constant an array of factors related to geography and climate). He found that the cumulative growth of employment in manufacturing (the traditional area of union strength prior to the rise of public-employee unions) in the right-to-work states was 26 percentage points greater than that in the non-right-to-work states."