Highlights: New Hampshire is first in Northeast to pass right-to-work; Wis. Dems To File Recall Signatures Against A Fifth Republican State Senator; MI Gov Snyder faces legal challenge over financial marshal law; New TV Ad Challenges Maine's Proposed Rollback of Child Labor Laws; Check your facts: Mitch Daniels says government workers in 41 states make more than taxpayers ... and Education reform clears 2 hurdles and IN: Indiana Senate Democrats walk out over anti-bolting proposal ; full Scrooge Alert here: http://dailyscroogealert.blogspot.com/
All AroundStand in Solidarity: If conservatives take away unions, they will take away America’s middle class.
Nurses Launch "Wheel of Misfortune"
Sacramento Bee
Or that Scott Walker, the anti-collective bargaining crusader, wants to take almost $1 billion from Wisconsin's schools? How about that John Kasich is an
Wisconsin
Wis. Dems To File Recall Signatures Against A Fifth Republican State Senator
Wis. court challenger seeks statewide recount
CBS News
Looks like Wisconsin doesn't want to be a "you can be fired at any time for any reason right to work state". by rightbehind April 20, 2011 7:57 PM EDT Just
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, Georgia Seeking to Reclaim Wages Already Paid to Teachers
Dem Rep. backs Metcalfe 'birther' bill...
New Hampshire
'Right-To-Work' Clears Senate By Veto-proof Margin
New Hampshire Public Radio
So-called Right to Work bills are debated almost every year here, but they rarely go far. This year supporters deemphasized economic arguements and pitched it mainly as a matter of individual rights. Republican Senator Ray White is from Bedford.
New Hampshire is first in Northeast to pass right-to-work
Reuters
BOSTON (Reuters) - The New Hampshire Senate on Wednesday passed its version of a right-to-work bill by a veto-proof majority, Senate staff said, a move that would make it the first state in the Northeast to pass this type of law
Update: Senate Passes Right-To-Work Bill Video News Online
Politics Ohio Senate Passes Union Bargaining Bill News Video FOX News ... Politics Right-To-Work Bill Called Attack On Workers News Video WMUR - Manchester ...
Groups: Right to Work Wrong for New Hampshire
Public News Service
CONCORD, NH - The New Hampshire Senate has passed its version of a "right-to-work bill" which supporters claim will bring more businesses to the state. Opponents, however, say it's the beginning of the end for workers' rights
Indiana
Check your facts: Mitch Daniels says government workers in 41 states make more than taxpayers ...
Mitch Daniels among skeptics of government workers having collective-bargaining rights, the issue that cleaved Wisconsin this year. Daniels, a Republican presidential prospect, told PBS talk-show host Tavis Smiley March 28 that government workers are
IN: Indiana Senate Democrats walk out over anti-bolting proposal
Minority Democrats in the Indiana Senate walked out of the chamber Wednesday to protest passage of an amendment meant to prevent the kind of legislative boycott that led to a 34-day standoff this year in the Indiana House.
Indiana Senate Votes to Gut Indiana’s Common Construction Wage Law
Daniels OKs teacher collective bargaining limits » Local News ...
Indianapolis — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed a bill restricting teacher collective bargaining agreements. It's the first piece of Daniels' sweeping
New Law limits teachers' union bargaining chips
Terre Haute Tribune Star
TERRE HAUTE — Teachers' unions in Indiana will no longer be able to negotiate such items as school calendars, class size or teacher evaluation procedures under a new law that restricts collective bargaining rights. “It limits local control on what
Education reform clears 2 hurdles
Indianapolis Star
Mitch Daniels signed into law a bill limiting collective bargaining for teachers Wednesday, while another piece of his education reform agenda -- an overhauled process for evaluating Indiana teachers -- passed in the House. Two other major education
Maine
New TV Ad Challenges Maine's Proposed Rollback of Child Labor Laws
MMD Newswire
"The reckless tampering with Maine's longstanding child labor laws would ... "They began by attacking collective bargaining rights and the minimum wage.
Michigan
The Harder They Come, the Snyder They Fall: MI Gov. Facing Legal Challenges to Financial Martial Law
Daily Kos: UPDATEDx2 The Czar of Benton Harbor gets right to work ...
UPDATEDx2 The Czar of Benton Harbor gets right to work. ... Also, the State of Michigan has been holding two-day training sessions for prospective EFMs.
Texas
Fight over rainy day fund taking shape
Senate Finance poised to take money out of rainy day fund, House readies for controversial bill to make class sizes bigger and a Democratic blogger questions the value of supposed electability.
Bill would force presidential candidates to show birth certificates to be on Texas ballot
Presidential and vice presidential candidates would be required to prove to Texas election officials that they were born in the United States under a proposal that a House committee is considering.
New Jersey
NJ: Gov. Christie's legal team tells N.J. Supreme Court to keep hands off education dollars
Back off. That was the Christie administration's message today to the state Supreme Court as New Jersey's legendary battle over the state's obligations to its poorest students was renewed in nearly two hours of arguments.
Oklahoma
Unions Lose One In Oklahoma
TPMDC
Republicans in Oklahoma appear poised to remove some more of what little union protection there is in that deep red and right-to-work state. On Tuesday, the state Senate passed House Bill 1593, a bill that would strip away Oklahoma's requirement that
