SPN Labor Policy Exchange: April 13, 2012

Published on Friday, April 13, 2012
LABOR POLICY

 

SPN State Labor Policy Exchange: April 13, 2012

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 reynolds@mackinac.org

 

LABOR POLICY UPDATES AND BLOGS

Allegheny Institute

• Governor Holds Firm on Port Authority Assistance

Bluegrass Institute

• NY Times: Education still lags in Kentucky
• California teacher stands up to teachers' union
• KY economic outlook ranked 39 of 50
• Democrat mayors at odds with teachers unions???!!!!

Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions

• Setting the Terms of Debate for Worker Freedom
• Cleveland school reform plan not a "War on Public Education"

Capital Research Center

• Labor Notes: April, 2012
• The Battle for the Postal Service: Postal Unions Go Postal

Cascade Policy Institute

• Renewing Labor's Moral Sense
• Steve Buckstein talks about unions and education with Victoria Taft
• Eric Fruits discusses how a Right to Work law would benefit Oregon

Center for Education Reform

• Opinion: Charter School Boom States

Center of the American Experiment

• Yesterday's Right-to-Work Debate
• Pensions in Dire Need
• Minnesota #41 out of 50 on economic outlook

Commonwealth Foundation

• Good Teachers Matter
• Think Government Union Dues aren't Used for Politics? Think Again
• I'm Bringing Some Gumbo to the State Capitol
• Schools Get Property Tax Referendum Exemptions for Pension Costs

Competitive Enterprise Institute

• On the Waterfront
• Union Recalcitrance on Race Relations
• Multiemployer Pensions, the Tragedy of the Commons, and the "Last Man Standing" Rule

Empire Center for New York State Policy

• We're number 50 (again)

Freedom Foundation

• A Closer Look at the State Budget Deal

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

• Ramsey County Judge Strikes Down Dayton's Unionization

Goldwater Institute

• Urgent: Call Speaker Tobin

Heritage Foundation

• Do Government Workers Think They're Better Off?
• District NCLB Waivers: An Unsettling Pact with Washington
• Empower Workers, Not Unions with Political Agendas
• Arizona's Governor Drops the Ball on School Choice

Illinois Policy Institute

• Illinois ranked third worst in economic outlook and performance

Independence Institute

• Dougco Board Proposes Teacher Raises, Performance Pay, & Ending Union Privileges

Kansas Policy Institute

• Wichita is Home to an Ever Increasing Public Sector

Labor Union Report

• A One-Sided ‘Right' to Unionize?!
• Blame Game: UFCW Blames Red Cross For No Progress in Strike

MacIver Institute for Public Policy

• MPS, Teachers' Union Miss Opportunity to Put Students First

Mackinac Center for Public Policy

• Five Options for Addressing ‘Transition Costs' When Closing the MPSERS Pension Plan
• Union Workers Would be Better Off With a 401(k)
• Michigan advances to 17th on economic outlook index
• SEIU Scheme Ends

Maryland Public Policy Institute

• The Uselessness of the Minimum Wage

Mississippi Center for Public Policy

• Financial Impact of Charter Schools

National Right to Work Committee

• Big Labor Bosses Getting Nervous?
• Right To Work SC Continues Ride on Michelin, Bridgestone, Continental
• SCOTUS Reviews Big Labor's Forced Political Interest-Free Loans
• Children Protesting Teacher's Union Work Rules

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

• Cleaning Service Union Sweeps Workers' Rights Under the Rug
• Judge Reaffirms Legal Basis for Government Union Reforms While Striking down Part of Wisconsin's Act 10
• Hospital Union Officials Face Federal Charges for Disclosure Malpractice

Pelican Institute for Public Policy

• Louisiana's Taxpayer-Funded Public Employee Contracts Could be Opened to Public Scrutiny

Public Sector Inc.

• One place where Public Sector Inc. is shrinking
• Is the pension-reform argument over now?
• Even in wake of sexual abuse scandal, California teachers union fighting accountability measures

Show-Me Institute

• Some Progress on Teacher Tenure Reform
• Some School Districts Rarely Terminate Teachers

Texas Public Policy Foundation

• School Finance

Washington Policy Center

• Democratic mayors across the nation challenge teachers' unions in political shift

Wisconsin Policy Research Institute

• The Meaning of MTEA's Rejection of Children's Week

NATIONAL LABOR NEWS

AFL-CIO

• AFL-CIO plans to expand labor's 'social network' with super-PAC
• AFL-CIO Urges Senate Democrats to Reject Challenge on Union Vote

SEIU

• Mark Mix: Union muscling in to O.C. hospital

Other Labor News

• US Toll Group truck drivers vote to unionise

LINKS OF INTEREST

• State Policy Network
• SPN Labor Policy Exchange Archives

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