GOP lawmakers to take up budget without Indiana Dems IndyStar.com ...Republicans ... today increased the fines on the missing legislators and said the Senate will now start dealing with bills that are in limbo in the House...
WI Dems: Walker's Frank Luntz Visit Broke the Law Mother Jones ...The party plans to file a complaint today... alleging that the advice Walker got from Luntz, the right's political messaging guru, amounted to something of value ... and thus violated state ethics and political contributions laws...
Gov. Snyder signs controversial emergency financial managers measures Associated Press ...Many Democrats and labor unions criticized the legislation as a state power grab that could set up virtual dictatorships and strip power from local elected officials...
Michigan’s Constitution Allows Governor Snyder To Be Recalled In July ThinkProgress ...Michigan voters can bypass the legislature altogether and call for a constitutional amendment by petition and referendum...
Otter signs two controversial school-reform bills into law, SB 1108 and SB 1110 The Spokesman Review ... Gov. Butch Otter quietly signed ... SB 1108, removing most collective bargaining rights from Idaho teachers, and SB 1110, imposing a teacher merit pay program beginning in 2013...
FreedomWorks Launches Campaign Against Abuses of Union Power FreedomWorks ...corporate-backed group to run smear campaign against unions...
Strike called off at Walkertown company Winston-Salem Journal ...Allied Systems Holdings, the parent company of Allied Systems Ltd., agreed to withdraw its plans to cut the wages of more than 2,500 Teamster carhaul drivers in the United States and Canada...
Update For Teamster YRCW Members Following Company’s Annual Report
IBT ...this missed deadline has been greatly overstated and is not particularly significant to the overall restructuring process...
