SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 42

Published on Friday, December 11, 2009
LABOR POLICY

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 42

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• Alliance for Worker Freedom (Americans for Tax Reform)
• Investigation Request Filed Against Unregistered SEIU Lobbyist and White House Jobs Summit Player
• Unions Positioning Themselves to be Recipients of Green Jobs
• Voodoo Economics Sure to Dominate Jobs Summit
• Workers Should Direct Anger at Pension Managers, Not Students
• Bluegrass Institute
• Top political donations organization is ----
• Governor should challenge education's price, performance
• Buckeye Institute
• A Real Job Creation Plan
• Matt Mayer on Ohio's Third Frontier
• Capital Research Center
• Labor Notes: December 2009
• Organization Man
• ACORN Dispersing Resources to SEIU, Other Liberal Groups, House Probe Finds
• Is ACORN Engaged in a Massive Money Laundering Scheme?
• Eric Holder Won't Investigate His Radical Friends at ACORN
• Commonwealth Foundation
• The Minimum Wage Myth
• Pennsylvania Ranks Middle-of-the-Pack in Small Business Climate
• Update: Harley's Union "Compromises"
• Congress Working on "[Save Their Own] Jobs" Bill
• Education Intelligence Agency
• Indiana State Teachers Association Finds Fraud Charges "Perplexing"
• The December 7 Communique' Is Up!
• Breaking: Indiana State Teachers Association Charged with Securities Fraud
• The November 30 Communique' Is Up!
• NEA's Dead Sea Scrolls
• Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)
• Christie: With or without NJEA, education changes coming
• N.J. Gov.-elect Chris Christie to call for audit of school boards
• For NJEA, days at head of the class about to end
• Grassroot Institute of Hawaii
• Hawaii: Eliminate State Jobs, Save Money For Real Stimulus
• The Heritage Foundation
• Swine Flu and Sick Leave: Improvements to the Emergency Influenza Containment Act Would Save Jobs
• Independence Institute
• Political Refunds and Painful Truths for DCTA
• School Choice Also Helps Reduce Crime, Increase College Attendance
• Drama Sweeps In New Denver School Board... Surprise, Intrigue to Follow?
• Labor Pains
• Uniting for the common ill: National Nurses United
• What do cocaine, Chicago, election fraud have in common? A handful of Teamsters leaders
• If health care is Obama's Waterloo, Andy Stern is Gebhard von Blücher & the Duke of Wellington
• Not set in stone: SEIU's strangle hold on SoCal health workers in jeopardy
• Teamsters demand blood money
• SEIU beating everyone on its way to the top
• Mackinac Center
• Um, What's the Opposite of "More"?
• Relationship Problems
• Michigan Has Best Job Growth Since 90s, But...
• Unions Nix Job-Saving Plan
• The MEA's LM-2 Report for 2008-2009
• Tidbits From the MEA's Recent Financial Report
• 2009 MEA Union Revenue: $83.01 Per Student
• SEIU/MASC: Curiouser and Curiouser
• Tidbits From the mea's Recent Financial Report
• Manhattan Institute
• Green Jobs Myths at the White House Summit
• Get a Job
• Job Creation: The Seen and Unseen
• National Right to Work Committee
• Glenn Beck Job Summit: Beck Discusses What Will Work With NRTW President Mark Mix
• Create Jobs: Stop Forced Unionism
• Job losses far worse for workers laboring under union monopoly bargaining agreements regardless
• $10 Billion Labor Payout
• Forced Unionism Bankrupting Country
• Obama's Labor Department Gives Big Labor and Its Front Groups Another Gift
• DOL Insiders Expose Obama's Labor Department
• Security First or Unionization First?
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
• Foundation Attorneys Defend Airline and Railway Workers from Union Boss Sneak Attack
• Federal Judge Upholds Injunction Against Teamster Union Bosses for Illegal Dues Scheme
• Podcast: Bluegrass State Teachers Win First Round of Legal Battle Against Forced Union Dues
• Union Watchdog Files Second Disclosure Request to Investigate Obama Labor Department Stonewalling
• Right to Work Pushes Obama Administration to Disclose Ties to Big Labor Insiders
• Nevada Policy Research Institute
• City Life column misleads: Creating jobs was a "key goal" of the (failed) stimulus
• Government shouldn't roll the dice to create jobs
• Surrendering to the teacher unions?
• Pacific Research Institute
• BOOK REVIEW: PLUNDER! How public employee unions are raiding treasuries, controlling our lives, and bankrupting the nation
• Plunder: New Book Exposes Power of Unions
• Pioneer Institute
• Too high a price to pay?
• ShopFloor
• Labor Unions Opposes Key Element of Senate Health Care Bill
• Cogito, Ergo Spin
• Card Check: That's a Very Good Question. Thank You. Next?
• Must Have Gotten Lost in the Mail. Oh, Hello, Mr. Stern
• Energy Reservations about the Job Summit
• Manufacturing Jobs, the CNBC ‘Meeting of the Minds'
• At the White House Jobs Forum
• The Union Label
• The Teacher's Union That Stole Christmas
• SEIU's Calif. Vote Fraud
• Unions Railroading Florida's Rail Project
• So What Will Give Employees The Most Freedom?
• Unions a Danger to Good Government
• Card Check: Because Winning 73% Isn't Enough
• Unions, Energy Industry Tops in Political Contributions

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

• SEIU
• Nonprofit Groups File New Request for Probe of SEIU Lobbying
• Jobs Summit
• obamajobs: Uncle Sam's Hiring Hall
• An Open Letter to President Obama on the Jobs Summit
• Big government can't put young Americans to work
• Killing Jobs To Court Labor
• Debate on Creating Jobs, Without Raising Deficit
• Employee Free Choice Act
• Union Boss Defends Card Check, Blames The Victim
• "EFCA vs. Jobs"
• "A Backdoor to Card Check"
• Health Care
• Nurses Unions Merge to Gain Greater Voice in Health Care
• Labor unions lobby against 'Cadillac' tax
• Unions pressure Democrats on health insurance tax
• AFL-CIO up with new health TV ad
• Other
• Ford Seeks to Use Stock to Pay Part of Its Pension Bill
• Mark Mix: Big Labor's transparency exemption
• Job Market Gets Friendlier to Recent Graduates
• School Reform Retreat?

STATE LABOR NEWS

California

• Paramedics go for new union
• Firefighters union may lose members in split
• Labor board OKs challenge to SEIU

Florida

• Clay County teachers at contract impasse with school district
• Florida AFL-CIO says it will fight sunrail deal

Illinois

• Union agreement apparent in Park District negotiations
• Aurora spending cuts: Mayor's proposed 2010 budget nearly $85 million less ...
• AFSCME local files unfair labor practice charge against city of Peoria
• AFSCME 3464 Filing Charge Against Peoria City

Massachusetts

• Teachers union says School Committee is holding up negotiations

Missouri

• St. Louis, unions agree on furloughs

Nevada

• NV teachers union agreeable to works to law change

New Jersey

• New Jersey Teachers' Union's 'Electile Dysfunction' for Corzine Explained

New York

• Bruno found guilty on 2 of 8 counts

Ohio

• Police, fire unions spared budget pain in Warren County
• Lorain library faces deep cuts: layoffs, reduced hours expected

Pennsylvania

• Workers file grievance over G-20 overtime

Texas

• Plumbers working on new Mower County jail go on strike

Vermont

• Vermont unions call for different pension options

Washington

• Gregoire: Tax hikes are needed to save state programs (AP/Bellingham Herald)
• Union to Oppose Maple Lane Closure, Hold Meeting
• All sides brace for slashed budget
• Gregoire unveils 'unjust' budget

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives