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Last week, state House Speaker Bill O'Brien wrote an open letter to his House colleagues pleading his case for so-called right-to-work legislation. In it, O'Brien claimed, "We should be in the running for Audi’s factory, but can’t because we don’t have a Right to Work law." The New Hampshire Business Review demolished this laughable assertion.
In his "Dear Colleagues" letter, [O'Brien] holds out the equally false hope that the German automaker Audi, which is said to be looking to build a plant in the U.S., would actually consider building in New Hampshire, (except, of course, for the unfortunate fact that the state doesn't have a RTW law).
Sounds great -- just pass the law, and a thousand Audi jobs will come.
The problem with that claim can be explained a little more succinctly: Carmakers don't build factories in little states in the upper right hand corner of countries with essentially zero rail service and most suppliers hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away. RTW or not.