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SPN State Labor Policy Exchange - Volume 4, Issue 24
Published on Thursday, July 02, 2009
LABOR POLICY
SPN State Labor Policy Exchange - Volume 4, Issue 24
The Labor Policy Exchange is sponsored by the State Policy Network and prepared by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation. If you believe an article will be of interest to other readers, please send the link to sdilley@effwa.org.
LABOR POLICY UPDATES AND BLOGS
- Allegheny Institute
- Alliance for Worker Freedom (Americans for Tax Reform)
- Americans for Limited Government
- Bluegrass Institute
- Talking up charter schools for Kentucky
- Feds should hold out for charter schools in Kentucky
- Good news buried in recent charter school report
- Leftover Stumbo gumbo: Recipe missing plan to eliminate artifically high wages
- Capital Research Center
- Al Franken (D-ACORN) Heads to the Senate
- Vadum on Fox News Challenging ACORN
- Judge Urges Prosecutors to Pursue ACORN
- TV Mobster's Wife Backs ACORN's Government Healthcare Push
- Commonwealth Foundation
- Education Intelligence Agency
- Another Year, Another NEA Convention
- What a Union Is All About
- EIA Exclusive: Indiana State Teachers Association Approves $40 Dues Increase
- National Journal Launches Education Expert Blog
- Panic in Detroit
- Eduwonk
- Evergreen Freedom Foundation
- WSJ: Unions contributed to economic collapse of 'progressive' states
- Education about arbitration
- SEIU "gets heard" at the White House
- Union competition gone wrong
- Resurgent Labor Unions Reach for More Power
- Union hypocrisy on democracy
- Unions find loophole in proposed health care plan
- California Supremes uphold restrictions on union politicking
- Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)
- Taxpayer-unfriendly
- Charter Schools Win a High-Profile Convert
- Corzine's budget breaking point for charter schools
- Heritage Foundation
- Ag JOBs Amnesty: The Wrong Way to Help American Agriculture
- LA Times: SEIU Wants It Both Ways On Workers' Rights
- Labor Pains
- SEIU's Amazing Hypocrisy On EFCA
- Labor Movement Seems To Back UNITE HERE Against SEIU
- Unions Demand More $ For Already Well-Compensated BART Employees
- The SEIU's "Curiously Close" Friendship With The White House
- SEIU-NUHW Battle Continues
- EFCA: It's all about the Benjamins
- Manhattan Institute
- National Right to Work Committee
- Best Places for Business
- Who is Funding Push for Socialized Medicine?
- Big Labor Benefits
- Union monopoly contract protects 700 NYC teachers who are paid to do nothing
- SEIU's Organizing Tactics Exposed
- National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
- Massachusetts Teacher Union Bosses Nix Education Grant, Reject Higher Pay for Teachers
- Case Update: Foundation Continues to Target Coercive Entertainment Industry Unions
- July/August Foundation Action Newsletter Is Now Available Online
- Shameless Priorities: Teachers FIRED for Refusing to Pay Union Dues... But Do Yoga, Play Scrabble for Sexual Misconduct
- NY Public Payroll Watch
- OpenMarket.org
- Supreme Court Rules in Favor of White and Hispanic Firefighters in Ricci v. DeStefano
- Green Pork and (Davis) Bacon
- Obama's Job-Killing Stimulus Package Replaced Investments With Welfare, Out of Political Correctness
- Pacific Research Institute
- Pioneer Institute
- ShopFloor
- Card Check: Employees Who Don't Want to Be Unionized
- ‘Black Shirts' - Just Words or Scripted Talking Points for VP Biden?
- Card Check: Senator Franken Means ...
- Card Check: Who Is George Cohen?
- Card Check: Barriers?
- Waxman-Markey = Davis-Bacon
- Card Check: Vice President Biden Calls Somebody ‘Black Shirts'
- Tidbits from the Communications Workers of America Conclave
- Card Check: What's The Real Intent of the Bill?
- The Union Label
- Draft created on June 30, 2009 at 1:28 am
- Oh, now the SEIU is FOR ‘Anti-Union Tactics'?
- To Pay for Obamacare, Tax Raises for America... Except Union Members
- The Union News
- This Week in Education
- U.S. Department of Labor
- ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor announces more than $3 million to continue assisting California workers affected by mortgage and banking industry layoffs - 09-0750-SAN - [07/01/2009]
- ETA News Release: Approximately 3,000 veterans to benefit from more than $7.5 million in U.S. Department of Labor employment training grants emphasizing ‘green jobs' - 09-0747-NAT - [07/01/2009]
- ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor announces an additional $7.9 million to Texas to continue recovery efforts caused by Hurricane Ike - 09-0749-DAL - [07/01/2009]
- ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor announces $11.6 million grant to Iowa for assistance with continued recovery from 2008 storms - 09-0769-KAN - [07/01/2009]
- ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor announces more than $2.2 million to continue to assist Wisconsin workers impacted by auto industry layoffs - 09-0767-CHI - [06/30/2009]
- ETA News Release: U.S. Labor Department announces release of more than $13 million in unemployment insurance modernization incentive funds to New Mexico - 09-0771-DAL - [06/30/2009]
- ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor awards more than $2.2 million to assist dislocated workers through expanded partnerships with Registered Apprenticeship - 09-0757-NAT - [06/30/2009]
- ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor announces more than $1.6 million to continue to assist Illinois workers impacted by statewide layoffs - 09-0768-CHI - [06/30/2009]
- ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor announces more than $18.7 million in grant funding for projects to assist young offenders in entering the workforce - 09-0766-NAT - [06/30/2009]
- ETA News Release: U.S. Labor Department announces release of $5.2 million in unemployment insurance modernization incentive funds to Alaska - 09-0736-SEA - [06/25/2009]
- Washington Policy Blog
UNION SOURCES
- AFL-CIO
- Minnesota Supreme Court Rules Franken Winner in Senate Race
- 20,000 University of Wisconsin Faculty Gain Bargaining Rights
- Labor Secretary Solis: ‘Level the Playing Field'
- Great Quotes: ‘Only a Fool' Would Block Workers from Unions
- Two Unions in Hawaii Seek to Block Governor from Ordering Furloughs-and More Bargaining News
- G8 Union Leaders Issue Urgent Call to Tackle Jobs Crisis
- Rite Aid's Wrong, Workers Tell Shareholders
- Business Professors: Employee Free Choice Act Good for the Economy
- 103 Students Set to Graduate from National Labor College
- Congress Hears Demands for Health Care Reform in Town Hall Meetings
- Today's the Day to Make Your Voice Heard on Health Care
- SEIU
- HAARM: Takin' It To The Streets
- Bank of America's Employees: The Other Side of the Financial Crisis
- Hartmarx Workers Win with Court-Approved Sale
- Sharing Responsibility, Ditching the Chamber
- Working families need Al Franken in the U.S. Senate
- Bank of America Workers Speak Out About Anti-Consumer Practices
- Rep. Keith Ellison, Consumer groups to join bank workers speaking out against predatory sales practices, failed banking model
- Five Hundred LA City Employees Vote to Join SEIU
- Canadian court rescinds Weyburn Wal-Mart workers' union certification
- Top Five Worst U.S. Chamber Policies for Small Businesses
- Farmers and Ranchers for Employee Free Choice
NATIONAL LABOR NEWS
- Employee Free Choice Act
- Borat Supports Employee Free Choice Act?
- Another vote for card-check bill
- UNION CARD CHECK UPDATE
- A Warning About "Card Check Lite"
- Stay Tuned for Card Check "Lite"
- Government-forced contracts are Card Check's real threat
- LA Times: SEIU Wants It Both Ways On Workers' Rights
- Union rift highlights problems with Employee Free Choice Act
- Union rep: card check vote imminent
- Rep. Buck McKeon Fights For Jobs, Against Employee Free Choice Act
- 12 Senate Dems are key on employee free choice, union leader says
- Card check is 'stuck' in legislative limbo
- Card Check: Follow The Money
- "A Primer on the Employee Free Choice Act's Arbitration Provision"
- Employee Free Choice Act's "Back Seat Driver's Clause"
- 5 Things to Know About the Employee Free Choice Act
- Wal-Mart
- Wal-Mart Backs Insurance 'Mandate'
- Wal-Mart Backs Drive to Make Companies Pay for Health Coverage
- Wal-Mart backs employer health care mandate
- SEIU
- Obama's chant returns at SEIU capitol rally: "Yes We Can!"
- SEIU Protestors Taken Into Custody At Statehouse
- Union leader has Obama's ear
- Obama's curiously close labor friendship
- AFL-CIO Condemns SEIU Raids on UNITE HERE - Jul 01
- Workers to call for end to SEIU, Unite Here labor dispute
- Healthcare workers protest SEIU's illegal tactics in union election
- SEIU wins another election of healthcare workers
- UNITE HERE Split Gets Even Messier
- SEIU to Citigroup: Ensure Raises Go To Workers, Not Top Execs
- SEIU ads target GOP over budget
- BofA under fire from SEIU, consumer groups
- Other National News
- Best in Class
- National Education Association to Vote on Taking Neutral Stance on Abortion
- As minimum wage adjusts, businesses bristle
- Labor union ads protest Baucus health proposal
- Bank of America is accused of exploiting Latino immigrant customers
- Throwing a Lifeline to Struggling Teachers Montgomery Program Embraces Peer Review.
- Unions consider reshaping AFL-CIO
- How Unions Define Environmentalism
- Unions to Get Dues from ObamaCare
- Unions demand public plan in healthcare bill
- Globe, union's tentative deal has smaller wage cut
- Unions hope to organize Inland Empire warehouse workers
- NEA sues over money lost in Madoff scam
- Hedge Fund Sued By Union Over Madoff Ties
STATE LABOR NEWS
California
- Schwarzenegger Threatens to Shut Down the State
- Palo Alto stays cautious on wage policy
- 'Card check' threatens labor law's security
- BART, largest unions extend contracts to July 9
- SEIU UHW Members Win Key Vote to Keep Union at Calif. Hospital
- Unions Fight Over Health-Care Workers
- SEIU borrows business' anti-union tactics to fend off a rival
Colorado
Hawaii
- Hawaii furlough battle to heat up in coming week
- Union of Hawaiian shipper Matson goes on strike
- Shipping Strike Now a Possibility
- What the state employee unions are doing
Indiana
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
- Statement on the Minnesota Supreme Court Ruling
- Pay Freeze Approved For Minn. State Employees
- Wal-Mart accused by union of threatening workers
New Jersey
New York
- Nassau Faces Layoffs, Cuts If Albany Doesn't Act
- CNY unions still angry with Madoff
- Machinists Union Files for AirTran Representation Election
Oregon
Pennsylvania
- Mayor Asking City Unions To Make Concessions
- The card-check ruse: Bogus argument
- Union turns down contract offer from Acme
Wisconsin
- State union gripes about inmate employees
- Union unit votes down wage deal with county
- Teachers ask for 3 percent raise
- Towns worry about prevailing wage changes
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