{"id":13735,"date":"2012-04-11T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T22:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13735"},"modified":"2012-04-11T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T22:10:19","slug":"right-to-work-a-boon-for-south-carolina%e2%80%99s-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13735\/right-to-work-a-boon-for-south-carolina%e2%80%99s-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-to-Work a Boon for South Carolina\u2019s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304587704577335602200937084.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> reports on the reasons French tire company Michelin is expanding its operations in South Carolina while reducing its employment footprint in the Midwest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pete Selleck, Michelin&#8217;s North America president, said the state has strong technical education resources and ready infrastructure. &#8220;South Carolina has a long history with technical colleges dating back to the 1960s,&#8221; he said. The state &#8220;is also one of the least unionized states in the country, which gives us the flexibility to focus on the customer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;There is no significant difference between nonunion and unionized plants other than a rule book in our unionized plants that tell us what we can and can&#8217;t do,&#8221; Mr. Selleck added. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The emphasis is mine, and it tells you all you need to know about where the growth opportunities are for companies, customers, and employees.<\/p>\n<p>In another part of the article Michelin is credited with paying a starting wage of $20 per hour, about a third more than the $15 per hour required under the average union contract.<\/p>\n<p>Better pay and no union dues?\u00a0 Maybe the iconic bumper sticker saying \u201cWork Union, Live Better\u201d should be changed to read, \u201cWork Union, Earn Less.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports on the reasons French tire company Michelin is expanding its operations in South Carolina while reducing its employment footprint in the Midwest: Pete Selleck, Michelin&#8217;s North America president, said the state has strong technical education resources and ready infrastructure. &#8220;South Carolina has a long history with technical colleges dating back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,27,420,1272,1051],"class_list":["post-13735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-right-to-work","tag-south-carolina","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13740,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions\/13740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}