SPN Labor Policy Exchange: February 6, 2012

Published on Monday, February 06, 2012
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SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: February 6, 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

• Right to Work Enters Rust Belt
• County Exec Asking Legislature for Increased PAT Funding
• Solving PAT's Financial Woes: State Problem or Local Issue

Bluegrass Institute

• Indiana to pass right-to-work

Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

• Indiana First Rust Belt State to go Right to Work
• OPERS Doubling Down on Defined Benefits

Cascade Policy Institute

• The Right to Work Is Right for Oregon: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Economic Benefits from Enacting a Right-to-Work Law

Center of the American Experiment

• Minnesota Right-to-Work

Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Oklahoma Moves to Keep Big Labor in Check
• Michigan SEIU Scam the Product of Government Collective Bargaining
• Kagan & Obamacare, Labor Union Politics, and an Alcohol Regulation Roundup
• Competitive Enterprise Institute Applauds Indiana Enactment of Right to Work

Empire Center for New York State Policy

• Silver's made-in-NY wage-price spiral
• Minimum wage madness: the follow-up

Freedom Foundation

• Bill to merge school health plans pits union against union

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

• GOP lawmakers unveil right-to-work constitutional amendment

Goldwater Institute

• Save Taxpayers Tens of Billions of Dollars: End Government-Sector Collective Bargaining
• Fireworks at Hearing on Public Union Bill
• A One-Two Punch to Government Union Release Time

Heritage Foundation

• Unions' Declining Appeal Shows Need for Alternatives

Idaho Freedom Foundation

• State budget expert: Special pension perks need to end (video)

Illinois Policy Institute

• Institute on WTAX Springfield: Institute's pension calculator
• Press release: Pension calculator compares public, private retirements
• National School Choice Week: Juan Williams: Gov. Walker vs. the unions

John Locke Foundation

• Last Stand for the NCAE?
• GOP Takes Heat Over Teacher Dues Bill Veto Override

John William Pope Civitas Institute

• Fuzzy math from AFL-CIO
• Right to Work Law Passes in Indiana

Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy

• The Cloakroom- NH Retirement System
• The Cloakroom- NH Retirement System Reform

Labor Union Report

• A Former Union Thug's Take On Right-to-Work: What's Right & What's Not...
• California Cash: L.A. Coliseum Officials Gave Union More Than $1 Million In Cash Payments
• Meet the SEIU Operative Running Barack Obama's Re-Election Campaign's Ground Game
• NLRB Wants Unions To Have Employee Phone Numbers & E-Mail Addresses
• Despite House Passage, Indiana Fight For Right-to-Work Goes On
• Wisconsin's Walker Leads Poll As Union Bosses Burn Through Members' Money

MacIver Institute for Public Policy

• Stunner: Walker Recall Petitions NOT Available for Online Review
• Big Labor Protesters at Wis. State of the State
• Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald SOS REAX
• Sen. Leah Vukmir SOS REAX
• Rep. Steve Nass SOS Reax
• Thousands Rally in Support of Gov. Walker

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• It's Official: Indiana Is a Right-to-Work State
• Right-to-Work-for-Yadda-Yadda-Yadda

Maine Heritage Policy Center

• The Case for Right-to-Work in Maine: Examining the Evidence in Oklahoma

Maryland Public Policy Institute

• Is O'Malley's Pension-Sharing Plan a Bad Idea?
• The Politics of Blame Avoidance
• Who Should Pay the Tab for Teacher Pensions?

National Right to Work Committee

• Indiana Gov. Daniels: Right to Work Working Already
• Teachers Union Manual Instructs How To Use Children As ‘Propaganda'
• NLRB's Speed-Dial Forced-Unionism
• As a matter of by-any-means-necessary expediency, Big Labor has long embraced "the necessity for coercion"
• Indiana Passes Right To Work - National Right to Work Committee Statement
• Schumer: WI Big Labor "Cash Drain"

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• News Release: Worker Advocate Launches Legal Task Force to Protect Indiana Right to Work Freedom
• News Release: Right to Work Foundation Attorneys Move to Disqualify Controversial Recess Appointees from Six Cases
• News Release: Right to Work Foundation Announces New Addition to Legal Team
• Right to Work on Fox Business: Obama's Recess NLRB Appointments Violate the Constitution

Pelican Institute for Public Policy

• Louisiana's Teacher Evaluation System Could Remove Tenure from "Autopilot"

Public Sector Inc.

• Scott Walker, moderate?
• Moving on pension reform in Illinois
• Powerful teachers union tops list of California lobbyists
• Arizona's model is Virginia not Wisconsin
• Draining the pension swamp in the Bayou
• AEI Event on collective bargaining and pensions

Rhode Island Center For Freedom and Prosperity

• Collective Bargaining Reform could Save R.I. $252 million per year

Rio Grande Foundation

• Public employees - including teachers - will still be able to get paid while serving in the Roundhouse
• Are NM's pensions heading to the Intensive Care Unit?
• Indiana is open for business: when will New Mexico be?

ShopFloor

• Union Elections Already on Fast Track - No Need for ‘Ambush'
• Indiana Becomes 23rd ‘Right-to-Work' State

Show-Me Institute

• Teacher Tenure: Why Should Educators Be Different?
• Fear Of Censorship Has Little To Do With Teacher Tenure Reform
• It Is Time To Reform Teacher Tenure In Missouri

Sutherland Institute

• Killing the Golden Goose

Thomas Jefferson Institute

• Legislators Spike Mandatory PLA for State Projects
• End Tenure - Do A Complete Job
• The Governor's Pension Reform Proposal Should Become Law

The Union Label

• Jindal Slams Teachers Union for not Acting on Director's Comment
• Government + Unions : The Recipe for Corruption
• Exposed: Michigan Teachers' Union's Troubling Playbook

Wisconsin Policy Research Institute

• A Modern Teacher Compensation System for Wisconsin

Yankee Institute for Public Policy

• Don't Be Bullied into Signing
• Increasing the Minimum Wage

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

AFL-CIO

• Indiana AFL-CIO reaction to Right to Work passage

NLRB

• Brooklyn Labor Fight Seen Testing Obama's NLRB Appointments

 

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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