Highlights: Wisconsin Republicans vow to add collective bargaining to budget bill Tuesday; Ohio House Democrats propose revival of Depression-era program to create jobs; PA Teachers vent over pink slips; Maine Senate rejects bill requiring photo ID to vote; Nevada Fends off Prevailing Wage Attack

National

Week-long series on Stateline.org highlighting the dramatic changes being implemented by Republican-controlled legislatures across the U.S.

Monday’s story: “The impact of one-party rule”, Republicans pass sweeping state agenda

Tuesday’s story: The year school budget cuts went straight to the classroom

Wisconsin

Massive Protest Expected in the Face of Wisconsin’s “Extraordinary Session”

BREAKING: Walkerville Marches to Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Building to Protest Mining Bill

Wisconsin Republicans vow to add collective bargaining to budget bill Tuesday
Isthmus Daily Page
Unless the Wisconsin Supreme Court gets in the spirit and makes a definitive ruling that affirms sweeping changes to collective bargaining by Tuesday afternoon, legislative Republicans intend to introduce this as a budget amendment

Wis. GOP poised to add bargaining limits
UPI.com
MADISON, Wis., June 14 (UPI) -- Wisconsin GOP lawmakers will add collective-bargaining limits to the state budget if the state Supreme Court doesn't rule Tuesday, the Assembly speaker says. "If need be, we are going to have to pass collective ...

Ohio

Ohio House Democrats propose revival of Depression-era program to create jobs

A pair of Cleveland-area lawmakers want to revive a Depression-era jobs program in Ohio to create about 5,000 jobs.

Two House Dems propose $400M public works jobs' plan

Two Democratic lawmakers - Reps. Mike Foley of Cleveland and Nickie Antonio of Lakewood - on Monday unveiled proposed legislation that calls for spending $400 million over two years to put 5,000 Ohioans to work on public works projects in all 88 counties.

Ohio GOP Sen. Defends Budget That Favors The Rich: Wealthy 'Suffer Along With ...
Think Progress
John Kasich (R-OH) at the helm, the Ohio GOP is successfully kneecapping the legs of Ohio's middle class. The party's first six months in power brought collective bargaining rights, the minimum wage, the prevailing wage, and education under the knife ...

Pennsylvania

Teachers vent over pink slips | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-06-14
Philadelphia Daily News
The union's lawsuit alleged that the district violated terms of the collective-bargaining agreement when it exempted about 200 Promise Academy teachers from widespread teacher layoffs. Deputy Superintendent Leroy Nunery, who sat in for Schools ...

Union head: Corbett style better, but still a problem...

Maine

Senate rejects bill requiring photo ID to vote

Maine senators on Monday, in a reversal of a House vote last week, rejected a bill that sought to require voters to show photo identification on Election Day.

On same-day voting, GOP's playbook was pure politics
Kennebec Journal
On workers' issues such as collective bargaining, employee pensions and even the labor mural, there was an element of sticking

New Hampshire

Stop using threats for political agendas
Hampton Union
John Lynch's veto of House Bill 474, the state's Right to Work Act. Those who support the governor's veto position, which historically has also been the Republican position of rejecting this specific anti-worker legislation, are under fire.

At least we know what they stand for
Nashua Telegraph
... right-to-work bill, an assault on women's right to choose with a parental notification bill that could ultimately lead to less parental notification, and an assault on the environment by repealing New Hampshire's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. ...

Big stakes for small businesses - NH.com
NH.com > A New Hampshire focus point for what-to-do, where-to-eat and where-to- stay! ... fair share fees to cover the cost of union collective bargaining. ...

Nevada

Nevada Fends off Prevailing Wage Attack

South Carolina

SC: Boeing labor battle is poised to go before judge
Barring a last-minute settlement, lawyers for the National Labor Relations Board will begin arguing before a Seattle judge on Tuesday that Boeing broke the law by building a new, nonunion production line in South Carolina instead of expanding its unionized operations in Washington State.