Today’s highlights: Commerce and Labor Committee in Ohio moving on SB 5; New Hampshire House to vote on R2W legislation today; Steelworkers converge on Indiana House; and Wisconsin Labor shows solidarity against Governor Walker. View full blog here: http://dailyscroogealert.blogspot.com/

Also, special for today, read my reaction to Mitch Daniel’s “Red Menace” threat at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference here: http://dailyscroogealert.blogspot.com/2011/02/right-to-work-then-and-now.html; article about his speech at CPAC available here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/12/AR2011021203728.html

Ohio

SB 5 aka “Straight Bull 5″ Hits the Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee in Ohio Today Progress Ohio has supplied a laundry list of anti-worker provisions that are included in Senate Bill 5 (SB 5 aka Straight Bull 5). The mularkey-ridden legislation will face opposition from the state AFL-CIO, which is asking people to take action prior to and while the Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee holds its 2nd and 3rd hearings today, February 15th, and Thursday, February 17th, respectively.

Ohio Senate Introduces Bill to Limit Collective Bargaining for ...
The Columbus Dispatch and the Cleveland Plain Dealer report that Ohio lawmakers introduced a .... After this, they have to pass a right to work law

Minnesota

Amid barrage of legislation, workers ask 'Where is the focus on jobs?'
Twin Cities Planet
By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota Construction workers in hard hats and safety ... Many speakers took aim at the so-called "Right to Work" proposal that ...

Minnesota Teamsters Local 320 Public Employees Enter Budget Battle
SunHerald.com
“We are determined to prevent that.” The ads drive readers and listeners to ... proposed “right to work” amendment that could appear on the 2012 Minnesota ...

Minnesota Union Members Rally Against Anti-Worker Bill
AFL-CIO
by Mike Hall, Feb 14, 2011 Some 400 members from dozens of Minnesota unions—backed ... So-called “right to work laws” prevent employers and employees from ...

Unions Show Solidarity Against First Round of "Right to Work ...
The Minnesota AFL-CIO is leading the charge against 'Right to Work' proposed legislation. Affiliates worked together quickly when notice of the hearing was ...

Indiana

Steelworkers to Converge on Statehouse
Inside INdiana Business
He also says the group plans to tell lawmakers "that any move to make Indiana a so-called 'right to work' state is misguided, divisive and a very bad idea ...

Several hundred union members expected at Indiana Statehouse rally to protest ...
The Republic
Union regional director Jim Robinson says its members consider the "right-to-work" bill misguided and divisive. Such a law would prohibit union membership ...

Statehouse rally to protest Indiana right-to-work legislation ...
Statehouse rally to protest Indiana right-to-work legislation. Associated Press February 15, 2011. INDIANAPOLIS — Organizers expect several hundred ...

Right to work, the real story! - TeamstersOnline
Indiana legislators are trying to pass Right to Work in Indiana. There is a great website that is against Right to Work in Indiana as much as I am: ...

Wisconsin

Recommended: In Wisconsin, ad wars, and National Guard vs. unions?
msnbc.com
If this bill passes every state in this country will become a "RIGHT TO WORK STATE". How can you use a single example to demonize a whole group? ...

Will Walker go easy on private sector unions?
Milwaukee News Buzz
Scott Walker a union-buster, but the Holy Grail of union busting, making Wisconsin a “right-to-work” state, isn't very high on his priority list. ...

Legislators silent on Walker proposal as state union leaders ...
"He is trying to turn Wisconsin into a right-to-work state. Or a right-to-work- for-less state." Right-to-work laws guarantee that no person can be compelled ...

New Hampshire

NH right-to-work bill should be defeated
Nashua Telegraph
I'm opposed to “right-to-work” laws because dues are important to maintaining rules and regulations in place and protecting worker wages and benefits. ...

NM House voting on anti-union legislation
Forbes
AP , 02.14.11, 12:05 PM EST CONCORD, NH -- The New Hampshire House is scheduled to vote this week on an anti-union right-to-work bill that would end the ...

House considers right-to-work
Concord Monitor
By Maddie Hanna / Monitor staff The New Hampshire House is scheduled to vote this week on an anti-union right-to-work bill that would end the practice of ...

NH House members to vote on controversial measures
The Union Leader
John Lynch's budget speech today, New Hampshire House members will vote on a ... The House also will debate HB 474, the "right to work" bill that would cut ...

Michigan

Michigan bill would allow 'right to work' zones - toledoblade.com ...
The right-to-work zones legislation is Senate Bill 120. ... Control shift gives GOP votes to greatly alter Ohio's labor law\

CONNELL: No place for candor in American politics
Port Huron Times Herald
It explains why Republicans are so eager to pass right-to-work laws as a way of attracting investment and jobs. THE BIG REFORMS -- whether you're talking ...

Pennsylvania

Public school districts brace for possibility of vouchers

Pittsburgh Public Schools could send more than $3.8 million in state money to other districts or private schools in the first year of a proposed tuition voucher program, according to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.

Pennsylvania senators hear liquor privatization arguments

A state Senate panel heard testimony on what could become one of the hottest legislative issues in Pennsylvania this year — privatizing the sale of wine and liquor.

Senate panel serves up first round in state-stores debate

The coming debate over whether to get state government out of the booze trade may be enough to drive some state lawmakers to drink. For two hours Monday afternoon a Senate committee heard from a battery of witnesses, each armed with a fistful of statistics.

Missouri

YouTube - Missouri Right-to-Work Legislation: The case AGAINST a ...
Opponents of establishing Missouri as a right-to-work state spoke during the bill's initial hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 8 in the Senate General Laws Committee.