SPN Labor Policy Exchange: October 28, 2011

Published on Friday, October 28, 2011
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SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: October 28, 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

• PSBA-Impediment to Education Improvement
• Dealing with City Pensions: What's Next?

Alliance for Worker Freedom

• AWF Urges An "Official Time" Policy Rider In Workers Appropriations Process

Bluegrass Institute

• Substantial progress or not: You can't have education both ways
• Teacher retirement system under-performed other retiree plan in Kentucky
• Oregon makes pension system transparent

Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

• State Teachers Retirement System Admits its System is Failing
• Widespread Pension Double Dipping Hurts Taxpayers
• Public Employee Union Grievances Overwhelm Municipalities

Capital Research Center

• George Soros Funds Occupy Wall Street
• Unions: The New Barbarians

Cascade Policy Institute

• Occupy Portland or Understand Capitalism?
• Cornilles draws business support, while Dems draw labor and legal backing

Center for Education Reform

• DPS Teacher-Pay System Likely Boosting Student Achievement, Study Finds

Commonwealth Foundation

• 34 Seconds of Truth Vs. $2 million of Fallacy
• Did Union Boss Young Read Wrong Liquor Study?
• Knowles' Bill Puts Taxpayers Above Special Interests
• Pennsylvania Natural Gas Jobs Doubled in Last Three Years

Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Contentious Talks: UAW Ratifies Contract with Ford, Workers Say Better for Union than Members
• State Budgets Busted
• For the Children
• Unions Get Simpler U.S. Financial Report as Obama Reverses Bush
• Bloomberg administration eyes health care hike for city employees, despite unions' resistance

Empire Center for New York State Policy

• Pension cost bulges form budget-paring incentives

Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)

• Hedge fund manager readies for battle with NJEA to reform NJ schools

Freedom Foundation

• State Spending on Employee Compensation Increased More Than 17 Percent Over Last Ten Years
• School Board Conflict of Interest?
• Public and private pension systems are like apples and oranges

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

• Childcare providers seek meeting with Dayton before looming unionization decision
• Report: Aggregate state debt exceeds $4 trillion

Goldwater Institute

• Report: Schools Must Keep Up With Shift Toward Digital Learning

Grassroot Institute of Hawaii

• Hawaii's Taxpayers Owe $25,000 for Past Debt
• Letter from a Teamster

Heritage Foundation

• Big Labor Steps Up Its Material Support for ‘Occupy' Protests
• AFL-CIO Shells Out Ad Dollars to Support ‘Occupy' Protests

Idaho Freedom Foundation

• Idaho took federal money for unemployment insurance costs, but has paid it back
• Orchardist falls flat in trying to hire unemployed, underemployed workers

Illinois Policy Institute

• ObamaCare makes it harder for the poor to find work
• Teachers' Pensions: Who's Really Paying?

Independence Institute

• Board Candidate's Largest Donor Is Brother of Superintendent

James Madison Institute

• Reflections on "The Cartel"

John Locke Foundation

• CJ Editorial: Fuzzy Job Math From Gov. Perdue

John William Pope Civitas Institute

• State Unemployment Rate Continues to Rise

Labor Union Report

• NEA Foundation Gives Grant To Create Activists...Out Of 1st & 2nd Graders!
• AFL-CIO Vows To Be #OccupyWallStreet Protesters' ‘Get Out Of Jail Free' Card
• After Nearly 4-Month Strike, UAW Throws In Towel At Steinway Ohio Subsidiary

MacIver Institute for Public Policy

• Post-Reform Compensation Plan Ushers in New Era, New Savings
• State's UI Fraud Crackdown Moves Forward
• Governor Supports Eliminating Double Dipping
• Democratic Party-Big Labor Coalition Goes All Out for Recall of Governor Walker
• MacIver Investigation Prompts Call for Sick Leave Conversion Change

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• The Occupiers vs. Detroit's Recovery
• Occupy Detroit? Why Not Take Responsibility?
• Government Unions: Bad for Government Services

Maine Heritage Policy Center

• University of Maine Payroll and Spending Data Updated on MaineOpenGov.org

Montana Policy Institute

• Small majority of states changed pension plans in 2011, report says
• Staff gets OK to challenge attorney general opinion on releasing state employee pension information
• Commentary: Teachers' retirement needs tweaking, not major surgery

National Right to Work Committee

• Big Labor's War on the Private Sector in Ohio and across the USA
• New evidence "Right To Work boon for Oklahoma"
• SEIU Joins Occupy Movement
• Big Labor economist leaves out important details in Right To Work debate

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• Civil Servants File New Brief in Federal Public-Sector Unionism Case
• New Fact Sheet Confirms: Right to Work States Benefit from Faster Growth, Better Pay

Nevada Policy Research Institute

• Union power, organizers ‘behind' Occupy Las Vegas
• Great news: Underperforming math teacher ... transferred to another school
• A brief history of Project Labor Agreements in Clark County
• Stunning video: Reid says "private sector jobs have been doing just fine"

Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs

• OSEEGIB on the right track

Pelican Institute for Public Policy

• Student Based Budgeting Viewed as Logical Extension of Charter School Movement

Public Sector Inc.

• Cuomo "about right" in handling unions
• Get Ready For Brown's Faux Pension Reform
• Teachers Union Puts Students Last Once Again, Opposes University of California Online Classes
• Injury Prone Public Workers?

Rhode Island Center For Freedom and Prosperity

• NEW! Pension Open Government website: RIOpenGov.org
• Task Force Commentary: R.I.'s pension debt worse than admitted (by Jagadeesh Gokhale)
• Hybrid Savings Mean System Failure

Rio Grande Foundation

• Lawmakers urge Workforce Solutions to start prosecuting unemployment fraud
• An idea to revamp the way unemployment works - and how you could enhance your retirement at the same time

ShopFloor

• Specialty Healthcare Micro-Unions a Reality

Show-Me Institute

• Job Creation: How It Really Works and Why the Government Doesn't Understand It

The Union Label

• Union's Battle Against Ohio Heats Up
• Union Organizers Work 1 Day As Teachers, Get $100K+ in State Pensions
• Cain Adds to ‘9-9-9' Plan, Angering Unions
• Rep. Issa: NLRB Withheld Emails Showing ‘Lack of Impartiality' in Boeing Case
• Teachers Unions: On the Road to Extinction?

Washington Policy Center

• Governor asks unions to re-negotiate health care benefits

Wisconsin Policy Research Institute

• Few Teacher Layoffs in Large Wisconsin Districts
• A Flawed Logic on Milwaukee School Finance

Wyoming Liberty Group

• Privatizing Health Insurance Is Key To U.S. Regaining Its AAA Rating

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

AFL-CIO

• National AFL-CIO official says labor must reach out to young
• City taxi drivers' organization joins AFL-CIO

NLRB

• House panel OK's bill to limit NLRB

SEIU

• Sen. Hatch Seeks Answers from NLRB's Becker on SEIU Manual
• 3 Out-of-State SEIU Operatives Registered and Voted from Wisconsin Hotel

Other Labor News

• AP: Draft big issue left for baseball labor deal
• Even in Chicago, mayor goes after labor unions
• Curb on Labor Board's Speedy Union-Vote Plan Advances in House

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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