SPN Labor Policy Exchange: August 31, 2011

Published on Wednesday, August 31, 2011
LABOR POLICY

 

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: August 31, 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

• PA's Strike Picture
• Is the State About to Disapprove Pittsburgh's Pension Plan?

Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

• Market Volatility Highlights Need for Pension Reform
• Teachers Self Report They Don't Work Large Amounts of Uncompensated Time
• Midwest Economic Model Breaking Down
• Union Sermons... and Salaries

Calvert Institute for Policy Research

• Report on Maryland Teacher Quality
• Final Pension Affordability Report

Capital Research Center

• The NLRB vs. Religious Freedom

Cascade Policy Institute

• Is Unemployment Insurance Stimulative?

Common Sense Institute

• Substitution Effect Revisited: Balancing Sworn Officer and Private-Public Security Guards

Commonwealth Foundation

• When Union Bosses Make Stuff Up, We Offer Facts
• Gov. Corbett's Budget Guidelines Include Privatizing Yellow Pages, Streamlining
• The Real Crime in Philadelphia's School District

Competitive Enterprise Institute

• NLRB to Businesses: Tell Employees they Can Unionize
• A Letter to the Editor about Natural Rights and the Cuban Economy
• WEAC Demonstrates that Union Solidarity is a Thing of the Past
• UAW's King Aims for Seat on the Board in Ford Negotiations

Empire Center for New York State Policy

• Pension Fund Risks In Wild Market

Goldwater Institute

• The War On The Secret Ballot

Heritage Foundation

• Employers Consider Dropping Health Coverage Under Obamacare
• Union Boss Trumka: Spend More, Mr. President
• In Verizon Strike, Unions Protest Obamacare Law They Supported

Illinois Policy Institute

• Out of Sync: Government and Private Employee Compensation in Illinois

Independence Institute

• Flash: Unions Still Supporting Dems...
• Pension Reform That Doesn't Reform Anything
• Education reform and the teachers unions
• Is Illinois closer to real pension reform?
• Number(s) of the Day: Teachers Union Edition

James Madison Institute

• NLRB vs. Freedom of the Press

John Locke Foundation

• Teacher unions' impact on school reform

Labor Union Report

• SEIU Praises Obama's Stopping Deportations of Illegals
• Chicago Union Bosses Pocket Millions Through Pension Scheme
• Union Ain't Wanted: The UAW's Bad Week...
• Obama's Job-Killing NLRB Strikes Again! Orders ALL Employers To Post Union Notices

MacIver Institute for Public Policy

• Union Continues to Send Political Emails to State Employees

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• CMU Strike: Standing Firm Is Not Bad Faith
• More Schools Save by Ditching Unionized Insurance, Busing, Food and Janitors

National Right to Work Committee

• Mitt Romney & Newt Gingrich support FDR's forced unionism policy
• Big Labor's Waterloo? Not Likely until Compulsion is Completely Eliminated
• Another Big Labor Bailout Coming?
• Good News-Bad News

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• News Release: Worker Advocate Denounces NLRB Rule Designed to Push Workers into Compulsory Unionism
• Biting the Hand: Pro-Forced Unionism New York Times Slams Obama Labor Board Over Boeing
• Legacy of Big Labor Violence: A Growing Problem
• Forced Unionism Policies Aimed at Discouraging Workers from Exercising Their Rights Overturned

Pelican Institute for Public Policy

• Online Charter School Proponents Envision the Democratization of Education

Pioneer Institute

• Wishful Thinking On Romneycare & Obamacare for Employers
• Unions have a right to fight - legally

Public Sector Inc.

• Flash: Unions Still Supporting Dems...
• Despite Budget Woes, University of California System Continues to Increase Payroll
• Pension Reform That Doesn't Reform Anything
• Education reform and the teachers unions

Rio Grande Foundation

• Why is Taos County pimping for AFSCME?

ShopFloor

• Kansas City Fed: Manufacturing is Growing Slowly
• NLRB "Ambush Elections" Rules Will Harm Job Creation
• Former Department of Labor Official: NLRB Actions Spell Trouble

Show-Me Institute

• Kansas City: Grabbing the Pension Bull by the Horns?

Sutherland Institute

• Letter confirms that power is top issue for Ogden teachers union
• Bye-bye, collective bargaining?

Thomas Jefferson Institute

• Pension Plan Reform in Virginia (pdf)

Washington Policy Center

• Tacoma teachers' union targets schoolchildren

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

AFL-CIO

• Chamber, AFL-CIO Discuss Jobs Initiatives
• National AFL-CIO Is Aiding Referendum to Overturn Ohio Voting Law
• Union Disinvites GOP Pols to Labor Day Parade

NLRB

• Obama's Labor Chief Decries Conservative Proposal to Cripple NLRB
• Obama's NLRB to Push Card Check, Micro-Unions

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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