In the past few years Indiana has cut its corporate tax rate by nearly 25%, established one of the highest R&D tax credits in the country and started work on a $10 billion infrastructure-improvement plan.Until recently, though, Mr Daniels had resisted calls to make Indiana what is known as a "right-to-work" (RTW) state.
The cause of all this aggravation is a wave of recent union-curbing legislation that has torn through states such as Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana and, this week, Michigan.In what is arguably still the heartland of America's union movement, the Michigan legislature passed so-called "right-to-work" (RTW) legislation on December 11th.
This group says that somewhere between a quarter to a half of companies in the state planning to relocate insist upon going to RTW states.Few companies, though, are willing to go on the record to say exactly why they prefer to locate in RTW states though the reason is pretty obvious in a nutshell, they make for weaker unions.
Yet fares were very high compared with wage levels: typically £1,200 (about the same as the most basic RTW costs in the high season today), which equalled about three months' work at the average salary.
Air New Zealand is now the only world airline to offer RTW travel on a single airline – you buy a return ticket from Heathrow to Auckland, routed outbound via Hong Kong and inbound via Los Angeles (the rational way to travel, because of the benefit of the west-to-east jet stream).
A good agent will discuss these with you, identify the best "RTW" deal for you, and suggest other locations that you can easily add for little or no extra cost.
Many of the best round-the-world (RTW) fares are offered through the airline alliances: Star (featuring United, Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines plus many others), Skyteam (Air France/KLM, Delta and Korean Air) and Oneworld (American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Iberia and Qantas).
K: The only ready to wear (RTW) jeans that fit me are straight-legged and made of stretch denim, so I knew I wanted a similar pattern.
Pioneering globetrotters snapped up the first RTWs because they represented a once-in-a-lifetime experience: because fares to everywhere were sky high, a big travel splurge made rational sense.
The strong demand, plus the extra distances involved, makes RTWs that include South America especially expensive.
Barack Obama has weighed in, saying that the legislation is the "right to work for less money".RTW laws are common in the South (all the former confederate states have them on the books), but it is hard to imagine a place where one could cause more upset than in Michigan.
