RTW legislation would guarantee each person the right to accept and maintain employment with any willing employer without having to join or pay dues to an exclusive bargaining agent or any other union. In a submission to the Joint Review Committee on RTW entitled The Economic Benefits of RTW Laws, the study's author and Fraser Institute policy analyst, Fazil Mihlar, argues that if Alberta implements RTW it could see additional growth in investment and jobs. In New Zealand, between 1991 and 1995, over 150,000 new jobs were created.
Unions do impose sizeable economic distortions and costs.
Unions gain wage increases for their members at the expense of consumers, shareholders, and non-unionized workers. It is, however, one important factor in the equation for economic prosperity.