Highlights: Missouri Right to Work bill put on “Fast track”; Dist. 7 Steelworkers get more press;

Workers and Students in North Carolina, Virginia and Throughout ...
Fight Back! Newspaper
Attempts to roll back collective bargaining are now occurring in Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota, as well as Wisconsin. Right to work bills are pending ...

Missouri

Right to Work makes headway in Missouri's statehouse
Columbia Missourian
BY Audrey Moon JEFFERSON CITY — Although a coalition of state business organizations kept it off their agenda for the 2011 legislative session, a measure termed "right to work" by supporters has been put on the fast track in Missouri's Senate.

Indiana

Steelworkers rally against 'pretty bad anti-worker agenda'

Hundreds of steelworkers from around the state were told to "lobby your legislators, and give 'em hell" Tuesday when they arrived at the Statehouse for their annual lobby day.

Steelworkers decry GOP's moves against organized labor

Union members from Southwestern Indiana condemned what they said are GOP-backed efforts to chip away at the power of organized labor during a Statehouse rally Tuesday.

Ohio

State Cuts Rattle Unions
Wall Street Journal
Ohio lawmakers are holding hearings this week to limit bargaining rights for about 400000 public employees under Republican Gov. John Kasich's plan. More than a dozen other states are considering so-called right-to-work proposals that would give ...

Ohio.com - Right to work for Ohio
One of the most significant factors driving this is that Ohio is a forced-union state. That is, our workers are not protected by right-to-work legislation. ...

'Right to Work': GOP aims to gut labor unions | Social Justice ...
The Republican-backed Right to Work legislation could mean the end of labor ... Led by Ohio University economist Richard Vedder, the study concludes that ...

Union bargaining 'out of control,' say supporters of reform

Supporters of a plan to make sweeping changes to Ohio's collective bargaining laws had their first chance to make a case to lawmakers on Tuesday to rein in public sector labor costs that they say "spiral out of control."

Area officials see need to end public employee bargaining

A Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce leader and a Shelby County school official told lawmakers on Tuesday they support a bill to end collective bargaining for state workers and give school districts and local governments the flexibility to manage in the face of dwindling resources.

Senators take day to tweak JobsOhio

The Senate is not done considering changes to a bill that would allow Gov. John Kasich to privatize Ohio's economic-development efforts, having postponed a committee vote until this morning.

Jobs 101: Private-sector unions becoming irrelevant
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
Vedder said he sees a strong possibility that right-to-work laws will spread from traditionally non-union regions of the country to the Midwest, starting with Indiana and with Ohio likely to follow. Right-to-work law allows workers to individually ...

New Hampshire

Lynch's veto assured on right-to-work bill
Nashua Telegraph
John Lynch would veto legislation to make New Hampshire the first state in the Northeast to adopt so-called right-to-work legislation, his spokesman ...

NHPR.org - Lynch Says He'll Veto 'Right-To-Work'
By Josh Rogers
The veto threat comes one day after the house passed a so-called right-to work bill by a 90 vote margin, which is short of the two-thirds majority needed for a veto override. Lynch's spokesman, Colin Manning, says the governor sees no ...

New Hampshire House Passes Right-to-Work Measure, Governor ...
The bill to make New Hampshire a Right-to-Work state now moves to the New Hampshire Senate where Republicans enjoy a 19-5 majority. However, before the bill ...

Minnesota

Capitol echoes with chants of 'Jobs now!'
Workday Minnesota
Knutson cited proposals at the Capitol that would make weaken unions by making Minnesota a so-called “right to work” state and that would undercut the union ...

Union members rally for Dayton
Minnesota Public Radio
They also spoke out against efforts to cut the state's workforce, freeze salaries and make Minnesota a "Right to work state." AFL-CIO Executive Director ...

Michigan

Michigan Republicans introduces Right to Work Zones in Senate ...
On February 9th some Republicans introduced legislation to create Right To Work zones in Michigan. Apparently this is political payback for campaign ...

The Nerd drops the bomb
The Detroit News
Conservatives have decried Guv Snyder's abandonment of Right-to-Work. They sniffed "RINO" when he kept the MEDC. But now, amidst Republican pension-tax howls, Snyder Thursday may actuallydeliver a game-changer after all: A flat tax. ...

Maine

Right to Work
Bangor Daily News
The right to work debate may mark a turning point in how unions are understood and how they serve workers. The Employee Free Choice Act, a proposed federal law that would change the way unions can be formed in the private sector, is casting an odd and ...