SPN Labor Exchange: December 14, 2011

Published on Wednesday, December 14, 2011
LABOR POLICY

 

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: December 14, 2011

The Labor Policy Exchange is sponsored by the State Policy Network and prepared by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.  If you believe an article will be of interest to other readers, please send the link to reynolds@mackinac.org

LABOR POLICY UPDATES AND BLOGS

Allegheny Institute

•       Pittsburgh Region Jobs Picture is Looking Up
•       Most City Debt Still Pension Related 

Bluegrass Institute

• Fired up for Public Charter Schools!
• Indiana charter school teachers go for a professional organization, not a union
• Taxpayers on the hook for part-time pensions?

Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

• Tough Lessons Mean It’s Time to Feel the Pain 

Capital Research Center

• Police Officer Union Organizes a Mob
• Unions Heart Occupy Wall Street
• Tobacco Workers Reject Unionization
• Labor Department vs. Employers: Rewriting Advice Exemption to Benefit Unions
• Battleground Ohio: John Kasich’s Collective Bargaining Reform Goes Down

Cascade Policy Institute

• The Oregon Education Investment Board: Top Down on Steroids
• Virtual charter school enrollment soars after caps are lifted

Common Sense Institute

• Cantrell: Taxpayers Must Demand Transparency in Local Education Spending

Commonwealth Foundation

• Ode to Joy - A Concert of Hope
• Lorenzo's Boil: Why Father Not PSEA Knows Best
• Educrats Fight for System Not Kids, Taxpayers
• PSEA Ignores Children's Cries for Help, Facts

Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Big Labor, Obama Administration Drop Attack on Boeing, But Threat Lingers Over U.S. Businesses
• Phoenix Government Unions Look for More Money for Nothing
• Second Major Labor Group Condemns Occupy Movement’s Planned West Coast “Solidarity” Port Shutdown

Empire Center for New York State Policy

• New York City Payroll Updated on SeeThroughNY

Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)

• Pilot Teacher Evaluation System Slow to Gain Traction in Newark

Freedom Foundation

• Unions challenge liquor privatization law

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

• AFSCME Comes Calling for Providers After Judge Puts Union Vote on Hold
• Ramsey County Judge Halts Childcare Union Vote
• Freedom Foundation releases statement on recent child care unionization developments

Georgia Public Policy Foundation

• Major Change Possible for Georgia Unemployment Benefits

Goldwater Institute

• Public sector collective bargaining threatens right to work states too
• Freedom is the key to jobs
• Taking on the union freebies

Heritage Foundation

• The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act
• How Washington’s Outdated Approach to Tech Acquisitions Threatens Jobs

Idaho Freedom Foundation

• Retirement system down $613 million for the year, but pensioners get living increase
• State retirement board delays pension cost hike for second straight year

Illinois Policy Institute

• Stopping union boss pension abuses: Can the legislature defend needed reforms?

Independence Institute

• How Teachers Can Get Union Political Dues Back

James Madison Institute

• 2011–Dec7 Press Release: “Public Pension Reform & Health Care Compacts”

John Locke Foundation

• Ocean State takes pension problem seriously

John William Pope Civitas Institute

• Government Jobs Got a Bigger Bump than the Private Sector in October

Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy

• Busting the Tour Guide Cartel

Kansas Policy Institute

• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus! Sorry, Virginia, Your Retirement Fund (KPERS) is $0

Labor Union Report

• FAA Chief & Former Pilots’ Union Head Resigns After DUI Arrest 
• Will #OWS & Unions To Shut Down West Coast Ports Monday? 
• Union protesters target Target under hijacked #OWS banner
• ILWU to #OccupyPortland Operatives & Other Useful Idiots: Please, just leave.

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• 'Forced Unionization' Brings In $28 Million For SEIU ... And Climbing
• Get a Receipt
• That's Not How We Roll
• Dangerous Union of Monomaniacs?

Maryland Public Policy Institute

• The Further Problems with Government Unions

National Right to Work Committee

• Union Boss Occupy Wall Street Alliance Hurts Union Workers
• Feds probe union pension scam
• Ohio a month later; reality rather than Big Labor propaganda hits workers
• AFSCME Union Bosses Will Spend $100 Million To Help Reelect Him
• AFT calls NEA “Company Union” for representing both teachers and administration

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• Federal Labor Board Prosecutes Engineering Union for Forcing Unwilling Workers to Pay Dues

Platte Institute for Economic Research

• Department of Labor Overreach

Public Sector Inc.

• California public pension shortfall nears half a trillion dollars 
• More government workers get most lucrative pensions 
• New Los Angeles teachers contract would kill charter movement 
• Are many public sector workers retiring sooner?

ShopFloor

• Manufacturing Hiring Drops in October
• Retail Sales Growth Slows; Small Business Optimism Rises
• NLRB Withdraws Complaint Against Boeing Company

South Carolina Policy Council

• Financial Coercion: Federal Control of South Carolina’s Entitlements

Tennessee Center for Policy Research

• Unemployment extension hurts jobless and taxpayers

Texas Public Policy Foundation

• New report from Dallas Fed: Job gains not simply a low-wage story

The Union Label

• The Route to Teacher Union Extinction: Is the Other Shoe Dropping?
• Help Halt the NLRB’s Assault On America’s Union-Free Workplace
• Greedy Union to Destroy Black Restaurant Owner’s Business

Wyoming Liberty Group

• Has the Joint Labor Committee Finally had Enough of Healthy Frontiers?

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

AFL-CIO

• Alaska AFL-CIO Members Stage March at Sen. Lisa Murkowski's Anchorage Office
• AFL-CIO Chides Congress Over Evaporating Unemployment Insurance

NLRB

• NLRB, split along party lines, may be put out of work
• NLRB favors unionized states

SEIU

• SEIU: No, We Are Not “Un-Endorsing” Obama
• Vote to unionize CT daycare owners will continue until Dec. 20

Other Labor News

• With Port Actions, Occupy Oakland Tests Labor Leaders

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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