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Texas Takes a Crucial Step for Worker Freedom
June 3, 2025 // Although the passage of HB 11 is cause for celebration, the work is far from over. The implementation of this bill will be crucial, requiring licensing agencies to actively engage with their counterparts in other states while reexamining and modernizing their own licensing requirements. The biennial reports mandated by HB 11 will provide valuable insights into the progress being made and highlight where further reforms may be needed. Texas has taken an important step toward unlocking greater economic opportunity and becoming an even more attractive destination for skilled professionals. By embracing the principles of reciprocity, Texas leaders have signaled that their state values talent over regulations and bureaucracy.
Op-ed: In Pursuit Of Southern Foothold, UAW Faces Resistance
April 17, 2024 // “We the Governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas are highly concerned about the unionization campaign driven by misinformation and scare tactics that the UAW has brought into our states,” the joint statement noted, adding that the reality in 2024 “is companies have choices when it comes to where to invest and bring jobs and opportunity. We have worked tirelessly on behalf of our constituents to bring good-paying jobs to our states. These jobs have become part of the fabric of the automotive manufacturing industry. Unionization would certainly put our states’ jobs in jeopardy – in fact, in this year already, all of the UAW automakers have announced layoffs. In America, we respect our workforce and we do not need to pay a third party to tell us who can pick up a box or flip a switch. No one wants to hear this, but it’s the ugly reality. We’ve seen it play out this way every single time a foreign automaker plant has been unionized; not one of those plants remains in operation.”
Exclusive: 16 GOP Governors Oppose Biden’s Executive Order Creating Monopoly On Federal Construction Contracts
April 26, 2022 // Reducing competition from some of the best union and nonunion construction firms and workers will exacerbate the construction industry’s skilled labor shortage, delay projects, and increase construction costs by estimates of 12% to 20% per project, which will result in fewer infrastructure improvements, less construction industry job creation, and higher taxes.