Right to Work States Prosper

The Detroit News reports:

Much of the nation's growth is coming from the 22 right-to-work states. Those states saw a 20 percent jump in employment between 1995 and 2005, compared with 11 percent for states that compel union membership.

Right-to-work states are attracting the best-paying jobs, posting a 37 percent gain in household income during that period, compared with 26 percent elsewhere.

In metropolitan areas, residents of right-to-work states enjoy the fattest paychecks.

Foreign automakers and suppliers are putting most of their manufacturing facilities in right-to-work states, and paying workers wages and benefits comparable with the Big Three's union plants.

The UAW's inability to organize transplant facilities is evidence that manufacturing workers can get along just fine without a union standing between them and their employer.

Michigan,Illinois,New York,and New Jersey can't compete with a better model.Here's a map with the right to work states.