SPN Labor Policy Exchange: November 11, 2011

Published on Friday, November 11, 2011
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SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: November 11, 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

• Bonuses: It's the Principal of the Thing
• Convention Center and Prevailing Wage

Alliance for Worker Freedom

•  AWF is not anti-union, it is pro-worker
•  Democrats to the American People: I do what I want!

Bluegrass Institute

• Jefferson County Schools paying huge salaries to hundreds of staffers

Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

• Public Sector Fraud Eludes Public Spotlight
• Mainstream Media Acknowledges "Pension Pain"
• California Embraces Bold Public Pension Reform

Capital Research Center

• Official Time: Government Workers Perform Union Duties on the Taxpayers' Dime

Center for Education Reform

• Public school teachers aren't underpaid

Commonwealth Foundation

• Common Cause: Gas Political Money Can't Match Unions
• Teacher Evaluations in DC Help Teachers and Students

Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Department of Labor Sells Out Union Members for Big Labor 1%
• NLRB acting general counsel has an ego problem
• Twin Cities Jimmy John's franchisee to fight NLRB allegation
• Boeing: Union Reneged On Deal; NLRB Emails Shed Light
• California's public pensions Not so retiring

Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)

• Newark Teachers Can Apply for Slices of $100M Donation

Foundation for Educational Reform and Accountability

• Teachers Union Politics Threatens to Compromise Student Learning (Again)

Freedom Foundation

• Government Unions Fail to Recognize Their Role in the Budget Solution
• Washington has nation's highest minimum wage-and youth unemployment soars because of it

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

• SOURCES: Governor Dayton Close to Ordering Child Care Union Vote

Goldwater Institute

• Minimum employment with the minimum wage
• Monuments to education funding

Heritage Foundation

• Right to Work Increases Jobs and Choices
• Without Fanfare of Ohio or Wisconsin, Idaho Enacts Sweeping Reforms
• Morning Bell: The Truth About Public School Teacher Pay
• Pelosi: South Carolina Boeing Plant Should Unionize or Shut Down

Idaho Freedom Foundation

• Idaho Department of Labor director rejects call for resignation
• Idaho Department of Labor director calls for reduction in unemployment benefits

Illinois Policy Institute

• Marc Levine discusses pension reform on WGN radio
• Paying less, getting more
• Institute in Illinois Issues: Two sides of the pension debate

Independence Institute

• "Audits for Thee, Not for Me," But More Attacks on Online Ed. Option to Come

John Locke Foundation

• Welcome Sign for Job Creators
• Local Firms Denied DNC Work in Favor or Out-of-Town Unionized Ones?
• Charter schools surge on NAEP

John William Pope Civitas Institute

• School choice: what do parents know?

Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy

• Bosse and Westcott discuss Pension Right To Know Decision

Kansas Policy Institute

• Kansas Legislature's Legal Authority to Modify the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS)
• Small Business Roundtable Gives Obama Administration an Earful on Job Creation
• School Districts May Get to Dodge Accounting Rules on Pensions

Labor Union Report

• DNC Discriminating Against Charlotte Workers, Forcing Furloughs Of Non-Union Hotel Workers?
• Teamsters Slow Down On Snow Removal in...Cairo?
• #OccupyOakland calls for general strike, unions say ‘Sorry, we have jobs.'
• With No Contract, AFSCME To Strike Connecticut Red Cross Thursday

MacIver Institute for Public Policy

• A look at Local Governments' Lavish Sick Leave Policies
• Walker Recall Could Begin This Friday

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• MCLF Files Motion in U-M Graduate Student Case
• Defunded State Agency Still Operating
• Parents Forced to Pay Union Dues, Lawmaker Rakes In Health Care Money
• Their Time Is Your Money

Maryland Public Policy Institute

• An Update on the Pension Problem
• Are Public School Teachers Overcompensated?

National Right to Work Committee

• Reforms Working in Wisconsin
• Barack Obama, President of the SEIU
• ObamaCare's Big Labor Bailout Provisions
• Union tries to fire trustee who asked to audit taxpayer funded account
• DNC: No Union; No Business

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• News Release: Auto Parts Manufacturing Workers Seek to Disassemble Unpopular Union Boss Bargaining Powers
• New Fact Sheet Confirms: Right to Work States Benefit from Faster Growth, Better Pay
• Civil Servants File New Brief in Federal Public-Sector Unionism Case

Nevada Policy Research Institute

• PERS works as designed, gives Rogers $150K a year retirement

Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs

• State workers outraged about overspending

Pelican Institute for Public Policy

• Value-Added Teacher Evaluation Divides BESE Candidates, Draws Union Opposition
• Study Says Unemployment Benefits Hurting Job Growth

Pioneer Institute

• Preserving benefits trumps public safety
• BPS Meets the Market

Platte Institute for Economic Research

• Apply Savings to Education, Not Union Pay

Public Sector Inc.

• California Cities Outpacing State Government on Pension Reform
• Teachers, enrollment and busted budgets
• About Those Teacher Layoffs
• The Union's Occupation: Oakland Edition

Rhode Island Center For Freedom and Prosperity

• The Pension Illusion
• Pensions Beyond Pay

ShopFloor

• NLRB Lawyer says: "We screwed up the U.S. economy..."
• Unemployment Rate Down to 9 Percent, Manufacturers Hire 5000 More Workers in October

Show-Me Institute

• Manufacturing Mania (That We All Pay For)

South Carolina Policy Council

• Prepared in Mind and Resources? A Report on Public Higher Education in South Carolina

Sutherland Institute

• Computer-adaptive testing: an innovative tool for teachers, students

Thomas Jefferson Institute

• Fair Exchange: NCLB Waivers for Stronger Teacher Evaluations

The Union Label

• Defeat of OH Issue 2 Means $1,468 More Per Taxpayer By 2015
• Unions Continue to Swindle the Public
• NY Union Bosses Busted For Racketeering, Extortion, Money Laundering & Witness Tampering

Washington Policy Center

• Unions formally rebuff Governor's request for health benefit changes

Wisconsin Policy Research Institute

• Could Wisconsin Municipalities Go Bankrupt?

Wyoming Liberty Group

• Permitting Access to Domestic Resources Creates Jobs

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

AFL-CIO

• AFL-CIO's Trumka: Ohio Victory Is Clear Response to ‘Extreme Partisan Agenda'
• Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Unions Achieved Significant Victories On Behalf Of Labor Endorsed Candidates In Yesterday's Elections

NLRB

• House GOP to attack NLRB union-forming rules next week
• NLRB says Jimmy John's didn't play fair
• NLRB documents shed light on Boeing fight in South Carolina

SEIU

• SEIU Collects ‘Union Dues' From Medicaid Recipients
• In victory, SEIU official calls Kasich 'thug-like'

Other Labor News

• Political giving by labor unions depressed in 2011

• Oil pipeline fight roils unions
• Unions win, Personhood loses: what does it mean?

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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