Are there any pro-worker states in the south?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.expansionmanagement.com/cmd/articledetail/articleid/15668/default.asp

Mississippi Doesn't Wait for Business

Officials go out and try to entice companies to expand to the Delta State.

9/1/2002 By: Ann Morris


The name of the state song is "Go, Mississippi," but it could also be the state motto. This Gulf Coast state is not content to sit back and wait for new investment to arrive. It goes out to get it. It's reaching out beyond its borders and beckoning companies to come in and have a look around.

It's also reaching inward to companies that are already doing business there and offering assistance to encourage them to stay and grow. One way it's doing this is by retooling its economic development programs and constantly looking for new ways to make itself a superior business location. snip

Mississippi expresses its pro-business attitude through its laws. The state levies no sales taxes on the purchase of raw materials, processing chemicals or packaging materials, and there is no tax on the direct purchase of construction materials, machinery and equipment for qualifying businesses.

The state has foreign trade zones, competitive unemployment insurance rates, workers' compensation rates and favorable individual and corporate income tax rates.

Other prominent programs include the Rural Economic Development Assistance Program, which offers qualifying businesses credits on state corporate income taxes, and the Industrial Development Revenue Bond Program, which offers qualifying companies both taxable and tax-exempt bonds.

[Lex]

1. Are there any pro-worker states anywhere anymore?

nt

[NNN0LHI]

4. These states doing this have us all cutting each others throats

Thats their plan it seems.

Don

[newfie11]

8. Count South Dakota out!

A right to work state! That means they have a right to fire you at any time and for no reason. After having worked in many areas of the country (medical) I was shocked to see they could do this to people.
I am retired now so maybe it is this way all over the country now and I just don't know it.

[Deep13]

2. Mexico?

:shrug:

[billyoc]

3. Sure. South America

[Terry in Austin]

5. No.

In Texas, it's all about maintaining "a good bidness climate."

Unions get hosed with "Right to Work" laws and workers get a 45-hour week.

[Mudoria]

6. NC is not a pro-worker/union state

nor do I expect it to be one. In my workplace not only the management but the workers are virulently anti-union. I found that out when a couple of us contacted the Steelworkers union to try to organize. That died without much input from the company since 90% of our co-workers were totally against the idea. I was lucky to retain my job after that. Sad...

[2Design]

7. NO NO NO NO NO - the republicans are against workers that is why they have government jobs n/t

[Romulox]

9. Nope. They're all quite hostile to workers. nt

[leftofthedial]

10. Argentina maybe

there are zero pro-worker states in the US, north south or otherwise.

[NNN0LHI]

11. Well they are offering this reduced unemployment benefits to compete with someone

Otherwise they wouldn't keep mentioning how low theirs is.

Don

[leftofthedial]

13. some are slightly less pro-owner than others,

but none could honestly be described a pro-worker.

[Laelth]

12. Um, no. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth