City eliminates no-bid contracting
Source: By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Saturday, April 18, 2009 Lawyers, financial advisers, entertainers and other professionals will have to compete if they want contracts with the city of...
View ArticleThe coming dramatic change in child welfare
Source: Adam Wilson’s blog at the Olympian (WA), April 23, 2009 Rep. Ruth Kagi just flagged me down and chastised me for not covering quite a significant bill on child welfare, HB2106. I thought it...
View ArticleFirst Group affiliates pay $4.3M settlement
Source: Mike Boyer, Cincinnati.com March 17, 2011 Thousands of workers and job applicants for two subsidiaries of Cincinnati-based First Group America are eligible to share in $4.3 million from the...
View ArticleLawmaker moving to prevent next bus strike
Source: Howard Fischer, YourWestValley.com, March 22, 2012 A Glendale Republican lawmaker is moving to preclude the next bus strike in Arizona before it occurs. Sen. Rick Murphy has crafted language he...
View ArticleNew Media union drive stalled for 2 years by key question: Are charter...
Source: Berger-Marks Foundation, May 29, 2013 When teachers and counselors at New Media Technology Charter School in Pennsylvania voted 26-3 on April 24 to be represented by the Alliance of Charter...
View ArticleMinneapolis to start sorting through trash deals
Source: Maya Rao, Star Tribune, July 23, 2013 Some question whether the city is getting the best price by using the same firm for 40 years…. ….It’s one of a dozen small businesses that makes up the...
View ArticleTop Senate Republican calls for repealing union-backed wage law
Source: Sean Higgins, Examiner, July 30, 2014 Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., called for repealing the federal government’s Davis-Bacon Act, which sets wages for federal contracting work. Alexander...
View ArticleEditorial: The Right to Cheat and Maim?
Source: New York Times, August 19, 2014 In 2010, the Government Accountability Office found that nearly two-thirds of the 50 largest violators of federal wage and hour laws won new federal contracts...
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