SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 53

Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010
LABOR POLICY

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: Volume 4, Issue 53

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.

LABOR POLICY UPDATES AND BLOGS

Alliance for Worker Freedom

• House Democrats Look to Backdoor Mandatory Unionization Provisions

Bluegrass Institute

• Teachers' Union Fussing at President

Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

• AUDIO: Government Workers are Just Smarter

Evergreen Freedom Foundation

• House Passes Public Safety Employee Collective Bargaining Bill

Heritage Foundation

• Propping Up the Teachers Unions
• New York City Teachers Cash In on Their Way Out

Illinois Policy Institute

• METRA Employees Taking Advantage of Overtime Pay
• Billions in the Hole? Time for Pay Raises!

Independence Institute

• The REAL Twilight Zone: Unions, Officials Trample Teacher Options
• Good News: Denver's Forced Teacher Placements into Poor Schools Declines

John Locke Foundation

• Obama, Unions, and Wages

Labor Union Report

• Unions Go Gunning for Michelle Bachmann
• SEIU's Andy Stern Condemned by Former Comrades
• Unions Will Be the Anchor that Sinks Obama's Ship
• Obama's Labor Secretary Doing Double Duty for her Union Bosses
• The Purple Hand: Killing Capitalism and 'Changing America Forever.'
• Busting Becker? SEIU's Point Man Under Investigation?
• Michigan Dems Move to Funnel $6 Million in Home Care Dues to the SEIU

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• Federal Labor Board Sets Up Snap Union Elections
• Wayne-Westland Teacher Contract: Summary and Analysis
• Ann Arbor Teachers Union Keeps District Out of Balance
• Selective Disclosure
• MEA Lawsuit May Be Against Policy that They Already Endorsed
• Can Michigan Become a Right-to-Work State?
• Counting on Demonstrators
• Small Biz vs. Big Labor

Maryland Public Policy Institute

• Maryland Health Care Workers Love Detroit

National Right to Work Committee

• Union Lawyer Admits Forced Unionism is the Goal
• Big Labor White House Insider Flouts Financial Disclosure Rules
• Handful of GOP Senators Woo Union Kingpins
• Becker in Hot Water

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• Federal Labor Board Hits Nurses Union Hierarchy with Complaint for Keeping Workers in Dark

Pelican Institute for Public Policy

• Teachers' Union Rhetoric Distorts Benefits of New Education Law

ShopFloor

• Labor Round Up
• Contradictions: Labor Secretary Promotes Job Killing Legislation

The Union Label

• Union Worries That Failure to Pass Unemployment Extension Means Lost 'Stimulus' $
• No Problems With Union Nap Time in New York
• Gov. Says Ill. is Broke, But His Staffers/State Union Workers Get Big Raises
• Unions Violating Disclosure Rules

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

The Employee Free Choice Act

• Card Check: This Lame Duck Won't Fly
• Marco Rubio Talks Card Check
• "Mini Card Check" is Major Problem
• Card Check: California Schemin'

Other Labor News

• Opinion: Teachers' Unions Political Funding Inappropriate
• Mark Mix: When Big Labor Plays with Fire, Taxpayers Get Burned

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives