SPN Labor Policy Exchange: January 6, 2012

Published on Friday, January 06, 2012
LABOR POLICY

 

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: January 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

Indiana Right to Work News:

• Indiana House Democrats brace for $1,0000 a day fines in right-to-work battle with Republicans
• Statehouse stuck in stalemate over labor measure
• "Right-to-Work" Republicans Deprived of a Quorum in Indiana

NLRB

• Obama makes Recess Appointments to NLRB
• Business Groups Challenge New NLRB Rule

 

LABOR POLICY UPDATES AND BLOGS

Allegheny Institute

• A Look at the County's Pension System

Alliance for Worker Freedom

• The NLRB's Gift to Big Labor

Bluegrass Institute

• Future Shock: Legislators stoking the coals on Kentucky's runaway pension train
• ‘Air time' and public pension funding

Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

• Painful Pension Reality Hits Retirees Hard
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Find Teachers Highest Paid Government Workers

Caesar Rodney Institute

• Accountants Weigh-In on Delaware'sDebt

Capital Research Center

• Labor Notes: January 2012
• The Union Difference: A Primer On What Unions Do To The Economy

Cascade Policy Institute

• Taking Work Personally: How Individual Accounts Reward Personal Responsibility

Center for Education Reform

• Tenure On Garden State's Reform Agenda

Center of the American Experiment

• Can universities counter the tuition-hiking impact of government subsidies?
• Democrats find their bogeyman

Commonwealth Foundation

• Teachers' Union Dues at Leisure
• Map: PA Among Highest Unemployment Tax Rates
• Union Party vs. Taxpayer Party: PA's Political Paradigm
• The Growing Lobbying Might of the PSEA
• County Data Shows Prevailing Wage Hikes Costs

Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Judge Upholds Michigan Union Power Grab
• Rhode Island's Bold Pension Reforms Point the Way Forward
• Public Pensions Fuel Government Growth
• Obamacare Causes Layoffs in Medical Device Industry, Harms Medical Innovation
• Pension Tsunami, Record Federal Spending Increase U.S. Debts by $4.2 Trillion; State Debts Explode

Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)

• E3 President and CEO, Christy Davis Jackson, gives testimony for Urban Hope Act

Foundation for Educational Reform and Accountability

• Students Lose as State Softens Pressure on Districts to Hold Teachers Accountable

Free State Foundation

• Build Back That Broadband Wall: FCC Assaults Modern Telecom Services with Old-Fashioned Rules

Freedom Foundation

• Wanted: Well-paid thug. Apply: SEIU
• It's a Wonderful Life, Pro or Anti-Capitalist?
• The Tea Party Movement Goes International

Georgia Public Policy Foundation

• Georgia Missed a Huge Opportunity to Leverage Private Funds
• CAPCOs: Higher Costs + Fewer Jobs = Risky Idea
• Georgia Jobless Rate Posts Largest Decline in 34 Years
• Will Georgia Abandon '65 Rule' for Classroom Spending?

Goldwater Institute

• No surprise that jobs and money go where taxes are low, and Arizona can do better
• Board of Cosmetology's Irrational Regulations Need a Makeover

Heritage Foundation

• What the New Obama Labor Board Means for Workers and Employers
• GM Recalling Volts, White House Headed to Detroit to Celebrate?
• Indiana Pins Hopes on Right-to-Work Bill to Spur Job Growth
• A Public School Leader's Lesson in Creating a Culture of Excellence

Idaho Freedom Foundation

• Government Officials: Get out of the Economic Plotting Business
• Right-to-work expansion laws overturned

Illinois Policy Institute

• Institute in Crain's Chicago Business: Cost of teacher pensions swamping classroom needs, report says
• Pensions vs. schools: PK-12 schools
• Pensions vs. schools: Higher education

Independence Institute

• Denver Post Tackles Long-Studied Problem of Tax-Funded Teachers Union Release Time

James Madison Institute

• Pension Reform in Florida: Unfinished Business
• How Many Apples for the Teacher?

John Locke Foundation

• JLF expert recommends steps for repaying N.C.'s $2.6 billion unemployment insurance debt
• Ten big changes coming to NC education this year
• Faulty Analogy: Racial Justice Act and Employment Discrimination Cases

John William Pope Civitas Institute

• NCAE Going to Court Over Veto Override
• State Unemployment Rate Drops Slightly but Still at Double Digits
• State Retiree Liabilities Growing at Alarming Pace

Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy

• State Pensions: The Unfunded Liability and What it Means
• NH DOT claims employees save money taking home state cars

Kansas Policy Institute

• KPI Supports An Effective Education For All

Labor Union Report

• Union Bosses Applaud Obama's Unconstitutional Appointments to Union-Controlled NLRB
• SEIU Job Description: Train & Lead Members to Occupy State Buildings & Takeover Banks
• UAW Boss Backs Down From Adversarial Attacks On Foreign Automakers

MacIver Institute for Public Policy

• Examining a Federally Funded $6 Million ‘Green Jobs' Boondoggle in Wisconsin

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• Rescuing "The Motor City"
• Right-to-Work Legislation Possible in Indiana
• 'It Really Is Up to the Companies'
• Arbitrary Cap on Charter Schools Lifted

Maine Heritage Policy Center

• Report Shows Raising Taxes to Address DHHS Deficit Would Cost Maine 6,400 Jobs

Maryland Public Policy Institute

• It's Only the Beginning
• More Pension Madness

Mississippi Center for Public Policy

• 2012 Legislative Agenda

Montana Policy Institute

• MPI's Lawsuit Seeking Actual Employee Pay Information Moves Forward

National Right to Work Committee

• Obama NLRB Actions "Unconstitutional"
• Indiana AFL-CIO: Worker Feedom is a "smack at organized labor" that will "gut unions"
• Lafe Solomon ‘Did What IAM Bosses Told Him To'
• United Way Chief: ‘Please Support Your AFL-CIO'
• Obama Bureaucrats Bolster Monopolistic Unionism

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• News Release: Boeing Employees Hit Machinist Union with Charge for Discriminating against Workers in Right to Work States
• Transcript Shows SC Boeing Employees Kept in Dark about Labor Board Sham Settlement

Nevada Policy Research Institute

• Number 4: Nevada spends $12 million to 'create' five jobs
• Number 12: The $1.1 billion education cut myth

Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs

• Oklahoma Losing Taxpayers to No-Income-Tax States
• OCPA to Outline Path to Effective Workers' Comp Reform
• When Higher Ed Gets Defensive

Pacific Research Institute

• Politicizing Premiums Does Not Control Health Costs
• California Senate banishes pension truth-teller

Pelican Institute for Public Policy

• State Medicaid Costs Continue to Outpace Education and Other Vital Services

Pioneer Institute

• Can employers require job applicants to have a high school diploma?
• The wrong strategy to fix Lawrence public schools
• Tough Times on virtual learning

Platte Institute for Economic Research

• Nebraska Favors Public Unions over Taxpayers

Public Interest Institute

• Replace the Job Killing Corporate Tax With a Border-Adjusted Consumption Tax

Public Sector Inc.

• Some California Cites Picking Up Employees' Share of Pension Contributions
• One thing often left out of the teacher pay debate
• I can't believe he said that, public sector edition...
• Walker walks the walk on MSNBC
• How Calpers Panicked and Taxpayers Paid

Rhode Island Center For Freedom and Prosperity

• Task Force Report used to create Municipal Pension & Debt Map
• Little State, Big Spending

Rio Grande Foundation

• Santa Fe "Living wage" law reduces employment
• Improving education key to surviving economic transition
• Indian reservations: tomorrow's free market bastions?
• Another film subsidy corruption story

ShopFloor

• Recess Appointments Signal Administration Approval of Activist NLRB
• ADP Reports a Huge Jump in New Employment in December
• New Orders for Manufactured Goods Increased in November
• Manufacturing Activity in the Midwest Goes in Opposite Directions

South Carolina Policy Council

• Want A Solvent Retirement System?
• Senator Proposes Pension Changes forLawmakers
• Senate Panel Considers Nixing, Scaling Back OccupationalRegulations

Sutherland Institute

• Cutting through the red tape

Tennessee Center for Policy Research

• An Idea a Day: 51 Ideas for a Prosperous Tennessee

Texas Public Policy Foundation

• Merit Pay A Winner in D.C.

The Union Label

• State Sponsored Thievery Continues in Plain Sight
• Top 10 Worst Federal Rules of 2011
• Tenure for Teachers: Enough is Enough

Washington Policy Center

• Washington's ferry monopoly attracts George Will's ire

Wisconsin Policy Research Institute

• Soaking the Rich is Not the Way to Address Poverty
• People Matter: Reflections on 2011

Wyoming Liberty Group

• Bankrupt Pension Plans Drive Businesses Out of the State - A Lesson for Wyoming
• Big government and big business conspire to restrain Internet sales

 

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

AFL-CIO

• Labor leaders in Md. Promoting same-sex marriage bill

 

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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