SPN Labor Policy Exchange: February 17, 2012

Published on Friday, February 17, 2012
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SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: February 17, 2012

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

• No PAT Fix in Budget Address

Bluegrass Institute

• The dangers of prevailing wage policies at UK

Cascade Policy Institute

• Why Oregonians Deserve the Right to Work

Center for Education Reform

• VA House Votes to End Tenure
• Going For The Trigger
• VA Houses Divided Over Tenure
• Shorter Days Working

Common Sense Institute

• What Would Your Public Pension Be Worth?

Commonwealth Foundation

• Pennsylvania's Prevailing Wage Law
• Will the Union Party Win Again?
• Who Would Oppose Reforming a Costly, Unnecessary Law?
• Government Union Jeopardizes Criminal Justice Reform
• Pennsylvania State Budget Background & 2012 Preview
• Pennsylvania State Budget Toolkit

Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Vincent Vernuccio explains the union's latest method of recruitment.
• Immigration Tariffs Are Cost-Effective Solution to Illegal Immigration Problem
• Free Market Policy Organizations Push Back Against Stealth Unionization Campaign
• Busting Union Reform
• Keystone and the Unions
• Rome vs. the Unions

Empire Center for New York State Policy

• SUNY's Personal Retirement Plan As a Model for Pension Reform

Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)

• AFC Condemns Insulting Comments From Teachers Union Leader

Freedom Foundation

• Local-only Union

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

• GOP lawmakers unveil right-to-work constitutional amendment
• Walker: Right to Work off the table in WI
• Can Indiana's right-to-work law offer perspective for Minnesota?

Heritage Foundation

• Federal Pay is Out of Line with Private Sector Pay: CBO Supports Heritage, AEI Conclusions
• Delayed Recovery Historically Slow

Idaho Freedom Foundation

• House panel delays bill to end legislative pension-spiking

Independence Institute

• Proposed IRS Rule Bad Charter Medicine, But Hints at Needed Pension Changes

James Madison Institute

• February 2012 - Backgrounder N. 72 - "The Impact of Florida's Minimum Wage Law on Employment in the Hospitality Industry"

John Locke Foundation

• Critics: Reports Obscure Supplemental Pay for School Administrators
• NBC17: Fewer positions were lost than anticipated
• If you really believe in the minimum wage....
• Sowell questions Romney's stance on the minimum wage
• N.J. teacher union boss shows empathy for struggling families
• Yesterday Romney said he didn't care about the very poor, today he proved it

John William Pope Civitas Institute

• NCAE Continues to Muddy the Waters
• NCAE Misses the Mark, Again
• Minimum Wage Means Maximum Government Control

Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy

• Union Leader hails death of commuter rail boondoggle
• Pension Reform Resources

Labor Union Report

• House Committee To Examine Obama's NLRB Recess Appointments Tuesday

MacIver Institute for Public Policy

• Big Labor Marks One Year Anniversary of Defeat, Protests, Occupation
• Doctors in Union Sick Note Scam Contend Street Corner Exams Better Than Office Visits
• Doctors Claim No Fake Sick Notes, Just Fake Patients Reprimanded Doctors Say They Were the Victims of Fraud
• Doctors Around Country Outraged at Wisc. "Fake Sick Note" Scam
• Thanks to Recent Reforms, Merit Pay Coming to Some Wisconsin School Districts
• Madison Schools Slow to Realize Need to Compete

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• Dividing Ourselves From All That
• Would Michigan Have Been Better Off if the Sit-Down Strike had Failed?
• Center Expert Cited on UAW Politics
• Right to Work: Right for Oregon, Right for Michigan
• Roots of SEIU Forced Unionization 'Money Skim' Lead To Former ACORN Organizer

National Right to Work Committee

• National Right to Work Newsletter
• ‘A Choice, Not an Echo' on Forced Unionism
• Hobbs Act Loophole Legitimizes Union Violence
• Taxpayers Fleeing Forced-Unionism States
• UAW Member to union bosses: stop using my dues for politics
• Big Labor's forced union dues and fees for politics comes under scrutiny

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• News Release: Bus Driver's Unfair Labor Practice Charge Settlement Sends Union Bosses to School
• NYC Marriott Officials Face Additional Charges for Silencing Employees Opposed to Backroom Deal
• News Release: SEIU and Hospital Officials Hit With Federal Charges for Rigging Union Card Check 'Vote'
• News Release: AFSCME Union Bosses Hit With Federal Charges for Illegally Ordering Hospital Employee Fired

Nevada Policy Research Institute

• Governments paying union employees millions a year to perform union work

Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs

• Once More into the Breach: The Path to Effective Workers' Compensation Reform in Oklahoma
• Time to Make Workers' Compensation Reform a Priority

Public Interest Institute

• Hostess Brands: Bankrupted by Its Own Unions?

Public Sector Inc.

• Has Douglas County (Colo.) AFT overplayed its hand?
• Fire in San Diego
• 500 Workers receiving six-figure public pensions in San Diego
• California government employees lack rights!
• SUNY retirement plan could be model for New York, others
• Of Pensions and Judges

Rhode Island Center For Freedom and Prosperity

• Right To Work = Freedom for RI Workers
• Cranston Police & Fire Pensions 80% More Generous than MERS Peers

Rio Grande Foundation

• Dramatic changes needed for NM government pension plans

• Tying the minimum wage to inflation: the worst bill of 2012?

ShopFloor

• Members of Senate and House Take on NLRB Ambush Elections Rule

Show-Me Institute

• A Steaming Pile of Pension Debt

Texas Public Policy Foundation

• 2012 Policy Orientation - Keynote Address by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker - 01/12/12

Thomas Jefferson Institute

• MWAA Plays Chicken with McDonnell over PLAs

 

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

NLRB

• Obama touts S.C. Boeing plant that NLRB sued

 

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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