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SPN State Labor Policy Exchange - Volume 3, Issue 36
Published on Monday, September 22, 2008
LABOR POLICY
SPN State Labor Policy Exchange - Volume 3, Issue 36
LABOR POLICY UPDATES, ARTICLES, AND BLOGS
Bluegrass Policy Blog
A Teachers' Union Acting Like a Professional Association??!!
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Offshore Drilling, Mortgage Bailouts and Union Campaigns
Education Intelligence Agency
The September 8 Communique' Is Up!
Eduwonk
Employer Report
Machinists' Union Flip-Flops and Endorses Barack Obama
Breaking Union and Political News from 30,000 Feet
Evergreen Freedom Foundation
Unions Bargain At Table With Governor Whose Re-election They're Helping Fund
Union sacrifices own members in court
September 2008, Living Liberty
Teacher can send dues to charity despite union's objection
Collective Bargaining Expansion and Campaign Contributions in Washington (2004-08)
Hawaii Reporter
Shelter, Food, Water and Labor; Time to Pay Attention to the Basics
Heartland Institute
Research & Commentary: Modernizing Unemployment Insurance for a 21st Century Economy
Heritage Foundation
High Energy and Food Prices: Driving the August Employment Report Slowdown
Labor Pains
Union boss: Citizens didn't vote for democracy so workers don't need to vote for a union
Mark Udall's Opponent Bob Schaffer Weighs in on EFCA
A simple "No" would have sufficed
Card check is a basic "human right"?
KY Democratic Delegates Forced to Sign EFCA Petition
Lunsford's labor buddies screen questions about EFCA
Liberty Live
EFF column runs in Investors Business Daily
Three-day weekends for some state workers
No legal action yet in Bellevue strike
Bellevue School Board meets tonight ...
Striking Bellevue teachers need a lesson in economics
Labor strikes present a quandary for elected officials
"Chopp, Brown forget some facts"
Mackinac
Internal union disputes need better governance
Manhattan Institute
In America, The Poor Don't Work
National Right to Work Committee
Forced-Dues Expenditures 'Outrage Everybody'
Iowa Candidates Receive Right to Work Surveys
Big Labor's Half Billion Dollar Gamble
Carpenters Union Thugs Beat Dissident Member Unconscious
Another Big Labor Appeaser Bites the Dust
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Mediation Board's "Card Check" Promotion Proposal Yanked... For Now
National Right to Work Foundation Launches Official Facebook Group
Steelworkers Union President Continues Using Todd Palin's Money to Bash His Wife
New York Public Payroll Watch
Pressuring public employees to sign nondisclosure pacts
Paterson allows harnessing of retiree health benefits
Shopfloor
Card Check: Bernie Marcus and the Mexican Supreme Court
New York Times: Pro-Union, Except For Itself
In California, Employment Rights for Dope Smokers
In a Different Political World, These Are Law
The Union Label
Disgraced Ex-Labor Chief Helps Feds Snare Corrupt Pol
Union's Troubles Deepen: Child-Porn Case Revealed
Labor Unrest, Ready to Fight... Itself
Union Democracy Group Says SEIU's New ‘Ethics Commission' a Scam
The Union News
ACORN outraged at anti-fraud efforts
Stern preps SEIU embezzlement whitewash
Secret ballots protect rights of union workers
Fraud looms over November vote
Nebraska fails to force workers into unions
AFL-CIO engages front-group for EFCA
Union-backed Gov. ripped over bargaining
ACORN: Let all the fraudulent votes count
Will: Gov't unions take the cake
Expert writes Rx for labor-state
Harvard unionist shocked by Jack Welch
ACORN discloses PA irregularities
Rathke-ACORN ripoff misunderestimated
ACORN's Wade Rathke fakes resignation
Andy Stern ripped by pro-democracy unionist
IAM-Boeing strikers spread the hurt
SEIU puts disgraced big on leave
Going Negative: Barack calls in union 527s
Labor-state voters rethink mandatory unionism
Pitfalls of 'no-vote' unionism revealed
Anti-Stern rally draws 4,000 SEIU members
Undoing Andy Stern's corruption
U.S. Department of Labor
MSHA to collect $342,000 in fines from Darby Mine
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report
UNION SOURCES
AFL-CIO
Will You Make a Difference for Working Families Nov. 4?
DHL Proposal to Move from Ohio: ‘Bad for America's Workers'
Video: Meet Boss Bigman and Find Out Why We Need Employee Free Choice
Verizon Business Workers Join Unions
Experts Seek More Time to Comment on Secret Safety Rule
15 Years Later, Experts Say ‘Revisit NAFTA'
Investing in Green Economy Could Create 2 Million Jobs
Million-Member Effort for Free Choice Reaches 669,000 and Growing
AFL-CIO: Mortgage Bailout Needed, Plus New Stimulus Package
Job Security Key Issue in Boeing Strike
SEIU
Former US Labor Secretary Appointed Hearing Officer In Trusteeship of United Healthcare Workers-West
Working Life
Bill Fletcher speaks about SEIU crisis
Al Franken: "The Labor Movement Built the Middle Class"
NATIONAL LABOR NEWS
Unions Bargain At Table With Governor Whose Re-election They're Helping Fund
Union members get rich, and a city goes bankrupt
Teachers Union Initiates School Reform Plan
Obama opens schools debate with McCain
States hire foreign teachers to ease shortages
Campaign claims and counterclaims
Pro-Worker Laws Should Be Pro-Worker
EPI: Minimum wage hikes hurt teens
NEA Applauds Sen. Obama's Comprehensive Approach to Education Reform
Bush Shirks Role as Top Labor Cop
States running out of money in jobless funds
Statement by SEIU International President Andy Stern
Battle Heats Up On Union Measure
NEA boss praises Gov. Sarah Palin
In another era, climate would seem ripe for unions
Convention fundraising delivers cash, questions
STATE OF THE UNION: Labor goes global
STATE LABOR NEWS
Arkansas
Teachers Learn More About New Code Of Ethics
AEA: Political Arena Necessary For Educators
Arizona
AZ minimum wage blamed for lack of jobs for teens
California
Union members get rich, and a city goes bankrupt
School Board, Union Face Difficult Negotiations
Union Leader Facing Child Pornography Charge
More about the union leader arrested on child porn charges
Employees at Stanford, Packard Children's Hospitals Vote
Hospital workers vote for union representation
Lack of State Budget prompts action
Management proposal at Corica golf course concerns union
Still No Contract for UC Workers
Editorial: Recall effort by guards shameful
SEIU Denounces Anti-immigrant Hate Speech
Southland Mall's janitors rally for right to unionize
Tulare County Employees Threaten to Strike
Volunteer bill headed to governor's desk
Obama Backs LAX Service Workers
City launches investigation into potential impropriety
Union election set for Stanford hospital
Vallejo, unions may return soon to contract talks
At $8 an hour, airport workers struggle to survive
County union gives strike go-ahead
Compton probes sale of land to group tied to embattled SEIU local
Labor Council City Attorney Endorsement
Compton probes land sale to group tied to embattled SEIU local
SEIU, beset by spending scandal, places a senior manager on leave
Colorado
Teachers Pact In National Limelight
Nobody was all that swift at Swift.
Swift lays off more than 100 over apparent religious conflict
Brake gets endorsement in state Board of Ed race
8 businesses file suit to halt minimum-wage law
Janitors on strike at Denver-area mall
Colorado Labor Issues on Ballot
Education association alleges Rouse violated bus driver's rights
Right-to-work backers won't pull measure
Restaurants challenge minimum wage amendment
A Different Kind Of Election Reform
Convention fundraising delivers cash, questions
Voters Will Have 18 Measures In November Ballot
Highlights of Colorado ballot measures
Backers say Amendment 47 would improve labor unions
Connecticut
Florida
Cape Coral can't afford union raises
Choice Supporters Dismayed By Fla. Supreme Court Action
Illinois
Huntley teachers prepare to strike
Huntley-area teachers prepare to strike
Budget victims applaud action by House
Tulare County Employees Threaten to Strike
Highland teachers inch closer to strike
Mitsubishi workers man the production line despite not having a contract
MMNA contract deadline passes, talks continue
No word yet on status of MMNA contract
Kansas
Kansas teacher vacancies decrease
Strike's focus: job security, health care
Machinists picket; Boeing plant 'open for business'
Kentucky
AFL-CIO dispatches 32000 anti-McConnell mailers
Maine
City, union reach labor agreement
Maryland
Prevailing wage law passes County Council, 7-2
Montgomery County approves prevailing wage bill
Massachusetts
Moore ahead in fundraising contest
Teachers' contract could set pattern for unions
Backers of tax question have just $24753 in bank
Back to school, out of supplies
Lawsuit reflects strong ties between unions, pols
Michigan
CMU faculty walk picket line in contract talks
Labor rally for charity is Thursday
Unions rally in support of United way with picnic, neighborhood
More incentives needed to draw in teachers
WMU Professors Protest No Contract Deal
Nebraska
Omaha police contract negotiation testimony ended
Nevada
Preliminary Agreement Reached with SEIU and Renown
At stake in nurse union fight: Patient care
Nurses union spotlights negotiations with a candlelight vigil
New Hampshire
School board seat up for grabs
John Sununu: Secret Ballots For Them, But Not You
New Jersey
Judge orders NJ school chiefs' contract revisions
Judge allows state to restrict school administrators' bonuses
Employees responsible for board's predicament
Prevailing Wage Law Costs Jobs
New York
Union pickets at Canton Potsdam Hospital
Negotiators for county, union hammer out pact
North Carolina
Ongoing labor woes at Progress Energy's Shearon Harris plant
Senate candidates differ on unions
Ohio
Contract negotiations for police stall
Strickland defends actions in face of budget cuts
Strickland rolls out new prevailing wage rules
Private projects subject to union wage in Ohio
Strickland keeps Ohio up for grabs
Ohio Education Association Applauds Obama's Comprehensive Approach
Sick days decision brings relief for House Dems
After union-backed 527 hits Stivers, campaign says Kilroy is puppet of unions
Strickland the big winner in sick-days issue
Oklahoma
Effects of Greater Education Spending Questioned
Oregon
Recall effort against SEIU chief falls short
Unhappy Members of SEIU Local 503 Fall Short in Their Petition
Will prevailing wage be a non-issue in 2009?
Union's employees threatening strike
Pennsylvania
Pottsville teachers organize meetings
Contract negotiations stalled in Springfield
Saucon teachers set to strike
Souderton solicitor tapped for negotiations
Texas
Union OKs 'historic' steel deal
Utah
Voucher backers haven't quit fight
Vermont
Gubernatorial Candidates Debate Education
Education dominates gubernatorial debate
Washington
Unions Bargain At Table With Governor Whose Re-election They're Helping Fund
State worker union agrees to two-year contract
Federation, guv reach tentative deal
Not all unions have OK'd contract
Kelso joins school-funding lawsuit
Strike of machinists at Boeing continues
Machinist strike fund: 6 months
Bellevue School Board may ask court to order teachers back to work
University of Washington Medical Center
Boeing Strike Poised to Disrupt Deliveries
US aircraft machinists strike Boeing
Striking Machinists stand firm
Teacher can send dues to charity despite union's objection
Boeing Union Walks Out on Strike
In another era, climate would seem ripe for unions
Washington teachers union says law on sex between teachers, students unclear
Boeing Labor Talks Fail; Machinists Union Set to Strike
West Virginia
Greenbrier commission OKs gambling referendum
Rainelle official says ex-workers not due back pay
Prevailing Wage Law Costs Jobs
Wisconsin
State investment choice protested
LINKS OF INTEREST
U.S. Dept. of Labor Enforcement Actions
Townhall.com Trade & Commerce Page
SPN Labor Exchange Newsletter Archives
National Alliance for Worker and Employer Rights
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