Smart Girl Politics NH - McKinney to Address February Meet-Up

Concord, NH.

Carolyn McKinney, Chairman of the NH Republican Liberty Caucus (NHRLC), will address the February 2012 Smart Girl Politics’ New Hampshire Meet-up. McKinney, a resident of Amherst, has been intricately involved with the behind-the-scenes work of NHRLC for several years and was instrumental in the organization’s success in getting 107 endorsed candidates elected to state offices in November 2010.

NHRLC

“works to advance the principles of limited government, individual liberty and free markets within the Republican Party and throughout America. Our focus is on a broad range of issues, including education, taxation, property rights, gun rights, free speech, federalism and the proper role of government ”, goals SGP-NH shares.

During this election year, Smart Girl Politics New Hampshire, part of Smart Girl Politics’ national organization of conservative women, will focus on supporting conservative incumbents and challengers in and for State and local offices. SGP-NH meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at The Draft, 67 South Main Street, Concord, from 6-8 p.m.

Smart Girl Politics is non-profit organization for conservative women activists (and the conservative men who support us).

CEI - Stealth Unionization Campaign Exposed by Free Market Groups

Free Market Policy Organizations Push Back Against Stealth Unionization Campaign

Workers Alerted to Union Shenanigans in Statewide Mailing

Washington, DC, February 6, 2012 – The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is trying to unionize home health care workers in Connecticut by stealth—and Governor Dannel P. Malloy is helping them. In response, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Yankee Institute for Public Policy together this week launched a mail campaign to inform unsuspecting workers about SEIU’s efforts, and help them make an informed decision.

SEIU has already carried out such stealth tactics in other states. Here’s how it works: A pro-union governor issues an executive orders defining any health care workers who serve clients who receive any sort of government assistance as state employees who can be unionized. The union and its allies avoid media and public attention.

The only notice home health care workers receive concerning a union election is a nondescript mailing asking them if they wish to join the union. Under this process, the union only needs to receive a majority of returned cards—not a majority of all workers—to be recognized as those workers’ exclusive bargaining representative.

For example in Michigan, SEIU won representation over 45,000 health care workers with only 20 percent of eligible voters participating. Most of those workers were unaware of the unionization effort and did not sign or return their cards. For SEIU, this was very profitable. Since 2006, it has collected $28 million in compulsory union dues from home care workers in Michigan. Now it wants to replicate that in Connecticut.

Competitive Enterprise Institute labor policy experts offered the following comments.

CEI Policy Analyst Trey Kovacs: “Forced unionization of home health and day care workers shows government at its worst. Across the nation, union political influence has swayed elected officials such as Gov. Malloy to divert tax dollars intended to cover medical expenses for their states’ poor residents to enrich union coffers instead.”

CEI Labor Policy Counsel F. Vincent Vernuccio: “Every worker in the private sector should have the right to join or not join a union. SEIU’s ploy of stealth unionization aimed at denying workers a secret ballot brings its forced unionism agenda to a new low. It shows a union that is more concerned with collecting mandatory dues than with doing what is in the best interest of workers. CEI is privileged to be working with the Yankee Institute to warn home healthcare providers of SEIU’s deplorable tactics.”

CEI and Yankee Public Policy Institute are providing home health care workers in Connecticut a public notice mailing to educate them about SEIU’s stealth unionization campaign and the costs that unionization would impose.

► The mailing can be found on CEI’s Labor Policy website: www.workplacechoice.org.

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5 New Year resolutions from Uncle Sam (that you'll be forced to keep)...

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CEI Weekly: Merry Christmas!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Feature: Watch our short Christmas video, above!

Merry Christmas! As we at CEI prepare for the holidays, we've noticed that most of our favorite Christmas movies make capitalists out to be villains. So we put together this short video as a reminder of the Yuletide benefits of the market. Watch above, or at this link. SHAPING THE DEBATE The FDA vs. Commercial Speech Greg Conko and Henry I. Miller's article in Reason Magazine Create Wealth, Not Jobs Iain Murray and David Bier's op-ed in The Washington Times Behind the UAW's Aw Shucks Smile Vincent Vernuccio's op-ed in The American Spectator Grinches and Scrooges Dislike Facebook This Christmas Wayne Crews' column on Forbes Obama's Big Labor Wins a Big One Ivan Osorio and Russ Brown's op-ed in The American Spectator Dead People Get Lots of Other Entitlement Benefits Hans Bader's letter to the editor in The Washington Examiner Government Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Itself Wayne Crews' citation on FoxBusiness.com Texts, Lies, and Distracted Driving Marc Scribner's citation on The Volokh Conspiracy AT&T Admits Defeat on T-Mobile Takeover Ryan Radia's citation on Ars Technica The Death of Kim Jong Il, the Unraveling of North Korea and More Iain Murray and David Bier's citation in The Washington Post Blogs

CEI PODCAST December 22, 2011 -- The Keystone XL Pipeline Politicians usually love infrastructure projects. But politics has delayed the privately owned Keystone XL pipeline’s construction for three years now. Research Associate David Bier explains the reasons behind the delay, and points out that the pipeline’s real benefit isn’t the jobs it would create; it’s the wealth and value it would create. BEST OF THE BLOGS 2011 Brought Lots of Good News for Salt Lovers By Greg Conko Butter-nomics: Protectionism and Food Shortages By Daniel Rivera Another Year of Incandescence By Brian McGraw This Week in the Congress By Myron Ebell

CEI Weekly: Safety Board Proposes Cell Phone Ban for Drivers

Friday, December 16, 2011

Feature: Drivers can be distracted by many things. Why is the government focused on cell phone use?

FEATURED STORY: Safety Board Proposes Cell Phone Ban for Drivers The National Transportation Safety Board is pushing for a nationwide ban on all "nonemergency" use of cell phones by automobile drivers. CEI experts released a joint statement explaining why the ban would be ineffective at best. Read the statement here. SHAPING THE DEBATE Climategate Proves Scientists Are - Gasp! - Human Matt Patterson's op-ed in The Washington Examiner Exactly What Is Crony Capitalism, Anyway? Bill Frezza's op-ed on RealClearMarkets Don't Drill for Roads Marc Scribner's op-ed in National Review Nipping Jobs in the Bud Brian McGraw's op-ed in The American Spectator Occupy Wall Street Movement Ignites the Nation Bill Frezza's column in Forbes How Federal Aid Drives Up College Tuitions Hans Bader's op-ed in Minding the Campus A Cautionary Tale on Government Spying Iain Murray and David Bier's op-ed in The Washington Examiner Oil & Gas: The Gifts That Keep on Giving Robert L. Bradley's op-ed in Forbes Boeing Double-Teamed by Union, NLRB Vincent Vernuccio's citation in The Orange County Register SOPA Foes Marshall Opposition Before House Panel Vote Ryan Radia's citation in CNET Cell Phone Ban Critic: NTSB Has 'No Business Telling Me How to Drive My Car' Ryan Radia's citation in YahooNews

CEI PODCAST December 15, 2011 --  Drilling for Roads Land-use and Transportation Policy Analyst Marc Scribner looks at House Republicans’ “drilling for roads” proposal and finds it wanting. Under this proposal, the federal government would allow more fossil fuel extraction from federally owned lands, as well as offshore. Some of the revenues would go into the federal Highway Trust Fund. This would politicize transportation even more than it already is, and would lead to adverse consequences. BEST OF THE BLOGS California Air Board Plans to Eliminate Gasoline Vehicle Sales By Marlo Lewis Immigration is Good for Natives By Daniel Rivera Obama's Transparency War Targets Climate Skeptics By David Bier Time to Tell the Alternative Energy Industry to Grow Up By Jackie Moreau