SPN Labor Policy Exchange: September 19, 2011

Published on Monday, September 19, 2011
LABOR POLICY

 

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: September 19, 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

• Job Creation Silliness
• Education Chief Fails on Performance Pay
• PA's Strike Picture

Alliance for Worker Freedom

• CWA Exploits 9/11 Heroes as Part of Contract "Negotiations"

Bluegrass Institute

• Big Labor's making us offers we can refuse
• Poll confirms need for non-union teacher organizations

Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

• Oh Really? Taxpayers Won't Have to Bail Out the Pensions
• United States Postal Service Sees Benefits of Defined Contribution Retirement System

Capital Research Center

• Labor Notes: September 2011
• NLRB's "Quickie Election" Scheme

Cascade Policy Institute

• Extending Unemployment Benefits: Good Intentions, Bad Results

Center of the American Experiment

• Hitting the Beach on Labor Day

Commonwealth Foundation

• Teacher Qualifications vs. Teacher Effectiveness
• Big Labor's Stranglehold in Pennsylvania

Competitive Enterprise Institute

• CEI and Crossroads GPS Announce Launch of Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index
• Congress to NLRB's Becker: ‘Did You Write the SEIU Intimidation Manual?'
• Big Labor vs. Taxpayers

Empire Center for New York State Policy

• More Retirees With $100,000 Allowances

Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)

• Better Education for Kids going after NJEA instead of Christie
• Pilot evaluation system will judge N.J. teachers partially on students' performance

Freedom Foundation

• State pension hole is much deeper than official estimates
• Tacoma teachers launch illegal strike
• Teacher Strike: Interests of adults vs. interests of children
• Union protests new grocery store in Tacoma
• Freedom Foundation Report Shows $50 Billion Unfunded Pension Liability

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

• Surprising Setback: Dayton Says No to Executive Order for Daycare Provider Union
• Controversial Daycare Union Drive Reaches Governor's Office

Heritage Foundation

• Education Unions: Made Simple
• House Set to Rebuke NLRB for Meddling in Boeing's Expansion Plan
• Tale of the Red Tape #19: A More Perfect Union Advantage
• Video: A Tough Year for Big Labor
• NLRB Heralds Labor Day with an Attack on Workers' Rights

Illinois Policy Institute

• John Tillman on FOX Chicago: Quinn Using State Workers as Pawns

Independence Institute

• New Research Adds to "Master's Bump" Blowout; Time for More Performance Pay

John Locke Foundation

• Pension rules could change in wake of Williams conviction

John William Pope Civitas Institute

• What You Don't Hear in the Discussion About Teacher Layoffs

Kansas Policy Institute

• Kansas pension gap may more than double

Labor Union Report

• Judge Holds Washington Longshoremen in Contempt: Every protester was carrying a weapon...
• Survey: 48% See No Further Need for Labor Unions, 30% Disagree
• Government Unions to Obama: Don't Target Government Workers in Deficit Reduction
• Americans Jobs Act Would Establish New Protected Class: The Unemployed

MacIver Institute for Public Policy

• University of Wisconsin System to Act on New Flexibility, Plans to Dole Out Power to Local Chancellors

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• Former MEA Local Prez: Union May Lose 40% of Members - Including Him - if Teacher Right to Work Passes
• More GOP Backlash Against Recall-Happy MEA?
• Take Who Out?: Jimmy Hoffa's Revealing Choice of an Enemy

Maine Heritage Policy Center

• Big Labor vs. Taxpayers Index - Maine Ranks #30

Maryland Public Policy Institute

• Reflections on Labor Day

Montana Policy Institute

• USPS, Crippled by Unions, Considers Closing Several MT Offices

National Right to Work Committee

• UAW Authorizes Strike Against Ford
• Judge "says he feels like a paper tiger because the union clearly ignored his restraining order"
• Obama Demands Union Only Jobs Bill
• Jimmy Hoffa Part 2 - Cleaning Up the Teamsters

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• Special Notice for California Nurses Represented by the CNA/NNU Union
• Special Legal Notice to California Teachers: How to Get About a $300 refund of CTA Nonbargaining Expenses

Nevada Policy Research Institute

• Study shows AFL-CIO struggles with reading comprehension
• Inevitable: Rhode Island considering reducing pension benefits to current retirees

Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs

• Jenks & Union schools assailed for "vendetta" against children with special needs

Pacific Research Institute

• Union ‘Gut and Amend' Bills Slice Open CA
• Pay cut story highlights pension absurdities

Pelican Institute for Public Policy

• New Web Site Measures the Power and Influence of "Big Labor" in All 50 States
• Union-Backed BESE Candidates Could Face Stiff Competition

Pioneer Institute

• Examining Pension Talking Points

Public Interest Institute

• Summary of the Pro-Growth Strategy for Nebraska

Public Sector Inc.

• Hybrid Pension for RI?
• BLS: Public Sector Out-earns Private Sector
• SEIU Flirts with Rebellion
• Has labor's power declined? Not really

Rhode Island Center For Freedom and Prosperity

• State Pension Reform - RI has a way to go to catch up with other states

ShopFloor

• Industrial Production Rises in August as Regional Manufacturing Surveys Show Contraction
• Small Business Optimism Falls, Economists Lower Growth Estimates
• Manufacturers Ask NLRB to Read All Comments on Ambush Elections Rule

Show-Me Institute

• Missouri's Ticking Pension Time Bomb? Will the Money be There?
• Kansas City's Continuing Fight for Pension Sustainability

Sutherland Institute

• Free market competition improves public education, too

Tennessee Center for Policy Research

• Nashville regulations play "A Burdensome Tune" for entrepreneurs

Texas Public Policy Foundation

• The Texas Model: The Texas Workforce

The Union Label

• Mich. House Moves to Ban Union Dues Deducted from Teachers' Paychecks
• House Voting on Bill to Neuter National Labor Relations Board
• Union Thugs Hurl Racial Taunts in North Dakota
• Obama, Teachers Unions and Tax Evasion

Washington Policy Center

• The State Teachers' Union Plans to Punish Tacoma's Kids

Wisconsin Policy Research Institute

• Why Milwaukee's Police are More Effective Than Its Teachers
• Tough Noogies: So what if Scott Walker didn't campaign on curbing union power?
• Not What You Think: Let's peel away the hyperbole to see what Gov. Walker really did in his first budget.

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

AFL-CIO

• AFL-CIO President to Obama: Go to the Mat for Workers

NLRB

• Small biz group sues over NLRB poster
• Arkansas Reps vote to curb NLRB influence

SEIU

• SEIU to End Sodexo Campaign   
• Oregon Universities-SEIU Agreement Detailed

         
LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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