SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 50

Published on Friday, June 04, 2010
LABOR POLICY

  

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 50

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

Alaska Policy Forum

• Public Needs More Time to Learn About ASD Contracts
• IBEW Contracts Edge Out Local Businesses

Allegheny Institute

• Are "Draconian" Cuts Ahead for Port Authority?
• With Friends Like These...

Alliance for Worker Freedom

• WSJ Hightlights AWF's Efforts in the Ongoing Pension Bailout Battle
• Brown, Collins, Johanns, Murkowski, Snowe Side with Unions, Declare War on Volunteer Firefighters
• Democrats to add Forced Union Bargaining Language, Amendment #4147 to Senate Supplemental
• Democrats Insert Union Pension Handouts into Tax Extenders
• Unions Look to Expand Control Over the National Football League

Bluegrass Institute

• Not All Teachers' Unions are Created Alike

Capital Research Center

• Flashback: Census Bureau Dumped Unreliable ACORN After Videos Exposed Corruption

Commonwealth Foundation

• Union Boss Honored for Decline in Union Membership
• CF Joins Coalition Opposing Bailout of Union Pensions

Excellent Education for Everyone (E3)

• Teacher Tenure: Has it Outlived its Usefulness? Yes
• Big Blunder Cost New Jersey Teachers Years of Goodwill

Illinois Policy Institute

• What is AFSCME Trying to Hide?

Independence Institute

• AUDIO PODCAST: Obama Administration Rewards Big Labor with Costly Policy Change
• School Choice Advances in New Jersey Over Petty Teachers Union Obstruction
• Chapter Closes on Central Falls Saga with Slow, Painful Obama Reform Win

James Madison Institute

• RIP: Escalante- Unions vs. Merit

John William Pope Civitas Institute

• State Employment Grows while More North Carolinians Lose Jobs

MacIver Institute for Public Policy

• First Year Tab for Wisc Employees' Domestic Partner Benefits Tops $7 Million
• Declining Enrollment + Declining Performance + Budget Crunch = Big Raises at MPS

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• A Tale of Two Counties
• Strings May Be Attached When a Politician Has the Union Label
• State Report Shows Status of State Employee Pension Plan Worst in 15 Years: Less than 80% Funded, With More than $3 Billion in Unfunded Liability
• Paying Teachers Not to Teach
• Michigan Teacher Pay Tops in the Nation
• When Enough Really Isn't Enough
• A Law Unto Itself: Police Contract Undermines Law and Order
• Warren Board Member: "MEA Will Eat Their Young"
• Union Leader's Claim of School Kids Sitting on Floors Draws More Denials
• Critics Say Congressman McCotter Supports "Bailout" of Union Pensions

Maine Heritage Policy Center

• MEA: Maine Suffering from "Ballooning Class Sizes." Really?

Montana Policy Institute

• Advocacy Group Refunds $10,000 to Union, Files with State

National Right to Work Committee

• Look for the Union Payoff
• Campaign "Reform" Riddled with Big Labor Loopholes
• AFL-CIO: Cut Ties to Law Enforcement in AZ
• DC Police Union Escort SEIU Protestors to Protest
• $100 Million Political Bailout
• Forced-Unionism Expansion, by Hook or Crook

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• Government Union Bosses Face Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme
• Obama Executive Order Leaves Workers in the Dark
• Delta Employees File Motion to Join Legal Challenge to Controversial Transportation Unionization Rule

Nevada Policy Research Institute

• Clark County Teachers Only Getting One Pay Increase Next Year

OpenMarket.org

• Massive Fare Hike in Washington, D.C. Subway System; Public Sacrifices, Overpaid Union Doesn't
• Get Spit On, Take Three Months Off

ShopFloor

• Still Trying to Seat Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board
• So is This What the SEIU Means by 'Transparency?'

The Union Label

• Harry Reid's Push to Nationalize ALL Cop/Firemen Unions
• New NC Union-Based Political Party Fails to Get Enough Petition Signatures
• Bubba Playing the Anti-Union Card?
• Shame: Nine Republicans Supporting Union Bailout
• As We Suffer, Gov't Salaries/Jobs/Union Payoffs Grow

Washington Policy Center

• Seattle Teachers' Union Allows Quality Teachers & Performance Pay at Hawthorne Elementary, West Seattle Elementary & Cleveland High
• Study of Seattle's Collective Bargaining Agreement Suggests Changes to Teacher Evaluation, Assignment, Layoff & Other Practices

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

The Employee Free Choice Act

• The Tie Between Card Check & Sen. Casey's Bill
• What a Post-Card Check World Looks Like
• Card Check Would Have Prevented Organizing Win

SEIU

• SEIU Thugs Terrorize Teenage Boy
• Is HuffPo Threatening Political Pressure in Gladney Case on Behalf of SEIU?
• SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, Have You No Sense of Decency?

Other Labor News

• Unions Protesting Churches in California
• Government Efficiency is Necessary in Bad Economic Times (and Good)
• '50s Unions in 2010
• Seriously Folks, These Folks Aren't
• IRS Asked to Monitor Unions' Election Giving

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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