Monday, June 20, 2011

Today's Teamster News 06.20.11

Budget bill gives Walker more power over Medicaid programs  Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel   ...Advocates fear effect on programs for about 1 million Wisconsin residents...
Governor to try again to exclude some state workers from unions  McDonoughVoice.com   ...Nearly 2,000 state employees could be ejected from unions representing them and another 1,700 would be prevented from joining collective bargaining units under a bill that could be called in the Illinois Senate next week...
Latest developments in Gov. Rick Snyder's effort to tax pensions, cut film incentives, and reform education  mlive.com   ...It’s a legal victory for Snyder because having Michigan’s highest court hear the case short circuits years of litigation by groups arguing that taxing public pensions is an unconstitutional impairment of the benefit...
Kasich adviser ends bid for superintendent post  The Columbus Dispatch   ...Withdrawal letter says ethics laws would keep him from doing the job...
Boeing's Threat to American Enterprise (Opinion)  Wall Street Journal   ... It's a dead bang violation of the National Labor Relations Act, even if it comes as a surprise to Republicans and many other Americans...
State workers plan rallies to protest layoffs   Associated Press   ...Rallies will be held at noon Monday in Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, Binghamton, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, New York City and Long Island. Rallies are planned later in the afternoon in Hornell, Elmira, and Malone...