SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 48

Published on Wednesday, May 05, 2010
LABOR POLICY

  

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 48

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 vote@mackinac.org.

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LABOR POLICY UPDATES AND BLOGS

Allegheny Institute

• Job Numbers in Allegheny County: Who is Right?
• PA at Half a Dozen School Strikes This Year
• The Drip, Drip, Drip of Government Acid on the Economy

Alliance for Worker Freedom

• Raise My Taxes!!!!
• The Next Potential SEIU Head, Anna Burger, Calls for NLRB to Force Card Check

Bluegrass Institute

• Teacher Seniority Rules will Lead to MORE Layoffs
• Free-Market Factoid: Right-to Work States Win Most Job Growth
• Teachers' Union Ruins Indiana's Hopes for Race to the Top Dollars

Capital Research Center

• ACORN Boss: Tea Party a "Bowel Movement"
• 'Dissolved' ACORN Still Hitting Up Supporters for Funds

Evergreen Freedom Foundation

• Labor Keeps Promise to Dems

Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)

• 'The Cartel' sees Teacher Unions' Grip as Crippling
• C-P Opinion: Teachers Must See it from Taxpayers' View
• It's for the Unions
• Now that we got their Attention

Heritage

• Why Not Work for the Government? Federal Workers Make Twice as Much
• Government Unions are the Big Winners in Obama Economy

Mackinac Center

• E-mails Reveal Child Care Union All About the Money
• Cherry Picking: More Day Care Union Connections?
• MEA Wounds Governor's School Pension Reform
• Live from New York, It's Saturday Night Labor!
• Fourth Time's a Charm: The Michigan Home Based Child Care Council Finally Makes an Appearance
• Stealth Unionization of Small-Business Owners Called 'Skewed and Wrong'
• The MEA President Lays on the Guilt Trip
• Breaking News: House Vote Would Force Charter Schools into Underfunded Pension System
• Is this the Death Blow for the Living Wage?
• More Money for MESSA
• Checking on the UAW: A Look at the International Union's LM-2
• But I Thought that Went Without Saying... Right-to-Work is Very Much a Live Issue
• Intellectually Bankrupt: Hoffa Takes Up Space

National Right to Work Committee

• Government Unions Get Rich; Taxpayers Get Poor
• Police Union Official Indicted
• NY Post: Teacher Union has its $way
• GM and Union Boss Bailout Spin
• Christie Fights Government Union Excesses
• Andy Stern's Warped View
• Big Labor's Congress vs. State, Local Taxpayers
• Organized Labor Bosses 'Own' ObamaCare
• Baby Steps to Right to Work too Much for Michigan Establishment

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• Right to Work Submits Brief Opposing California Project Labor Agreements
• When Questioned, Public Sector Union Bosses Respond with Threats
• Gov. Quinn Faces Class-Action Suit for Executive Order Designed to Unionize Home-Care Providers
• New Right to Work Podcast: How "Project Labor Agreements" Line Big Labor's Pockets

OpenMarket.org

• The War of the SEIU Succession is Over, or is it?
• Public Employee Unions' Suffocating Grip on California

ShopFloor

• The First NLRB Reversal Makes the Next Ones All the Easier
• Craig Becker Nominated to the NLRB... for a Third Time

The Union Label

• Unionists Threaten CA Business Owner Over His Letter to the Editor
• Washington to Give Unions More Power to Tell Corporations What to Do
• Mickey Kaus, Union Fighter?
• Union Thugs at Capitol Demand Illinois Gov't 'Raise Our Taxes'
• Warning to Mich Teachers Unions: 'The Time to Stand up to the Unions Has Arrived'
• Brit Union Strike Over Severance Pay Might Soon Hit in U.S.

Washington Policy Blog

• Certification Laws, Union Contracts Leave Spokane Teachers Tied Up in Knots
• North Thurston School District Saves Spots at Aspire Middle School for Children of School Employees

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

The Employee Free choice Act

• More Proof Big Labor's Unionizations Costs Jobs
• Card Check: Binding Arbitration, a Radical Shift
• Card Check: Trumka Says
• AFL-CIO's Trumka: "We'll Find Something to Tack it On"
• Card Check: One Congressman Not Letting Down His Guard
• Card Check, NLRB: At Berkeley, a Hearing on First Contracts
• Using the NLRB to Implement Card Check Legislation
• New Cost Estimate: Card Check Will Cost 4.5 Million Jobs
• Employee Free Choice Act: Even Without Card Check, It's Bad
• NLRB Nominee: The Workaround for Card Check
• Card Check, From the Mouths of Babes
• Card Check: He Loves It, He Loves It Not

SEIU

• Burger Withdraws from SEIU Race; Henry Set to Head Union
• Andy Stern's Debts: SEIU Leader Swims Away While his Organization Sinks
• It's Official: Stern Protégé Loses SEIU Race
• Stern's Handpicked Replacement Not as Strong as Advertised
• Andy Stern: Union Chief Fleeing Ahead of Illinois Indictment?
• President Obama: A Pro-Union Guy
• Big Labor's Prodigal Son
• Seeing Red

Other Labor News

• Hoekstra Bill Would End Forced Union Scam
• Efficiency, Not Slashing Services, is the Goal
• WV Teachers Unions Exploit Miners' Tragedy to Attack Pro-Charter School Democrat
• Unions: "Green" Means What We Say it Means
• Livingston HealthCare Employees Reject Union
• Volunteers Break County Rules and City Law in Staton's Campaign for Sheriff
• Rhode Island AFSCME Council Under Investigation
• More Ink on Big Labor Favor

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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