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SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 44

Published on Wednesday, December 23, 2009
LABOR POLICY

  

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 44

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 rculbertson@effwa.org.

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LABOR POLICY UPDATES AND BLOGS

• Allegheny Institute
• Labor Market Weakness Persists in the Pittsburgh Region
• Alliance for Worker Freedom (Americans for Tax Reform)
• 2009 Big Labor's Christmas Wish List
• Bluegrass Institute
• Politicians' pensions
• U.S. charter schools at 5,000 and growing
• Education Intelligence Agency
• The December 21 Communique' Is Up!
• Georgia Public Policy Foundation
• How Georgia Can Fuel Job Creation with Early-Stage Capital
• Labor Pains
• This Just In: Elves issue strike notice against Santa, Christmas in jeopardy
• Update on Santa Rosa election: NUHW victory
• Mackinac Center
• American Greetings Says Goodbye to Michigan
• Main Forecast: Hoping for a 'Broken Clock' Moment
• Enviros vs. Union Jobs: House Dems Choose Enviros
• Passing the Torch
• Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Case Proceeding
• National Right to Work Committee
• Card Check Forced Unionism - West Virginia Style
• Buckle Your Seat-belts
• Poll shows support weak for ‘card check' legislation
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
• Grocery Store Union Bosses Face Federal Charges After Blocking Workers from Stopping Dues Payments
• Union Lawyers Deploy Strategy to Overturn Workers' Protection Against Card Check Organizing Abuse
• Nevada Policy Research Institute
• Financing entrepreneurial education: Part II
• Video: Detroit, American wasteland
• The Union Label
• Union Blocks Red Cross Blood Donation
• One Again Teachers Union Shows Kids Don't Matter
• Washington Policy Blog
• Small business bankruptcies up sharply in California

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

• SEIU
• In Tough Economy SEIU-UHW Members' Wage Increases Far Exceed the National Average
• Service union reaches deal with Broadway theaters
• SEIU nods to the left
• SEIU blasts delays on healthcare reform vote
• Education
• 'Duplicitous and Shameful'
• Teachers' Unions Are Washington's Fat Cats
• Other
• Can Detroit Be Saved?
• Labor Strikes Are Proof Europe Doesn't Always Have It Right

STATE LABOR NEWS

Arkansas

• Union steps up for Halter

California

• Upstart union wins a plurality in Sonoma County hospital vote

Colorado

• Coloradans: Our Choice Is Tied To Card Check

Florida

• Plans announced for statewide job-creation conference
• PSL approves new union
• Florida teachers union trying to block $700M in federal education grants

Illinois

• Hearing on Illinois state layoffs scheduled

Iowa

• Soderberg says cuts could be significant and tough

Massachusetts

• Massachusetts Union Agreement Will Protect Key Services, Save $28.5 Million

New York

• TOP 10: NO. 10: Unions help city chip away at costs
• Labor vs. Labor »

Ohio

• New city budget heavy on borrowing
• City leaders urge unions to talk now to avoid layoffs
• Cleveland: Talks in crunch time to avoid city layoffs

Pennsylvania

• Easton workers to get raises

Washington

• Firefighter's union helps balance EFR budget

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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