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| <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/04/13081/alec-right-work-law-tossed-out-wisconsin ALEC "Right to Work" Law Tossed Out in Wisconsin]</h3> | | <h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/03/14/alec-legislators-dominate-leadership-positions-in-republican-states/ ALEC Legislators Dominate Leadership Positions in Republican States]</h3> |
| [[Image:WI_Capitol_rotunda_protests270px.jpg|270 px|center]]Dane County Circuit Court Judge William Faust struck down the state's private-sector "right-to-work" law late today. | | [[Image: ALEC-Panel-Annual-Meeting-2024-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] For more than 50 years, the American Legislative Exchange Council has moved a right-wing and pro-corporate Republican agenda of legislation in states across the country — all while posing as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt charity. |
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| In February 2015, Governor Walker and the Wisconsin legislature pushed through a private-sector right-to-work bill over the objections of thousands of workers and 450 Wisconsin construction firms who rallied against the bill. Workers in right to work states [http://both union and nonunion workers in RTW states have lower wages and fewer benefits, on average, than comparable workers in other states. have significantly lower wages] and fewer benefits. The battle over "right to work" and the future of Wisconsin's workforce was the subject of a [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/magazine/scott-walker-and-the-fate-of-the-union.html ''New York Times'' magazine cover story.]
| | Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/03/14/alec-legislators-dominate-leadership-positions-in-republican-states/ here]. |
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| | <h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/25/alec-pushes-state-anti-labor-agenda-for-2025/ ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025]</h3> |
| | [[Image: IStock-1501973077-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill-mill, has laid out its priorities for this year’s state legislative sessions. |
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| [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/02/12743/wisconsin-introduces-verbatim-alec-right-work-bill CMD quickly exposed the bill] as a verbatim American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) measure authored by ALEC member legislators, including ALEC's National Chair and Wisconsin State Senator Leah Vukmir. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/04/13081/alec-right-work-law-tossed-out-wisconsin here].
| | Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/25/alec-pushes-state-anti-labor-agenda-for-2025/ here]. |
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| <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/04/13080/alec-touted-transparency-pushing-panama-free-trade-agreement ALEC Touted "Transparency" in Pushing for the Panama Free Trade Agreement]</h3> | | <h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/10/alec-publishes-its-own-project-2025-for-the-states/ ALEC Publishes Its Own Project 2025 — for the States]</h3> |
| [[Image:Panama_papers-cash270px.jpg|270 px|center]]An unprecedented leak of millions of documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca has revealed how some of the world's most powerful figures hide their wealth from taxation and public scrutiny. But it also exposes the bankruptcy of the promises of transparency and better governance that helped corporate interest groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sell the American public on "free trade" with Panama. | | [[Image: 50yearsofharm-rally-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] “Now, more than ever, is the time for states to lead.” This assertion by leaders of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) opens the organization’s Essential Policy Solutions playbook for 2025. |
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| The "[http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3c3495adf4/ Panama Papers]" document how members of the global elite from [http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-money-hidden-offshore Russian President Vladimir Putin], to multiple members of [http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/the-panama-papers-how-the-worlds-rich-and-famous-hide-their-money-offshore China's Politburo], to a [http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/leaked-papers-fifa-ethics-committee-credibility-crisis-juan-pedro-damiani-eugenio-figueredo FIFA ethics committee member] have secreted billions of dollars—much of it likely acquired through corruption and questionable financial schemes. The growing scandal has already prompted Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/world/europe/panama-papers-iceland.html?_r=0 to resign], on April 5, has British Prime Minister David Cameron defending his family [http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36007718 tax dealings in Panama], and much of the 3.4 terabyte leak has yet to be analyzed. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/04/13080/alec-touted-transparency-pushing-panama-free-trade-agreement here].
| | Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/10/alec-publishes-its-own-project-2025-for-the-states/ here]. |
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| <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/03/13067/alec-exposed-corporate-polluters-undermining-clean-power-virginia-see-more Corporate Polluters Undermining Clean Power in Virginia]</h3> | | <h3>[https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/01/31/alec-member-strikes-a-blow-against-rule-requiring-union-labor-on-federal-construction-projects/ ALEC Member Strikes a Blow Against Rule Requiring Union Labor on Federal Construction Projects]</h3> |
| [[Image:Dominion_Dump_ALEC_Now-sign270px.jpg|270 px|center]]The Sierra Club Virginia Chapter and the Center for Media and Democracy released [http://wp.vasierraclub.org/ALECExposed.pdf ALEC EXPOSED: Corporate Polluters Undermining Clean Power in Virginia], a report that reveals the influence that ALEC and its political allies have exerted to stymie state climate and clean energy policies. | | [[Image: Grand-Coulee-Dam-workers-Library-of-Congress-900x508.jpg |270 px|center]] Contractors engaged in large federal construction projects can’t be required to enter collective bargaining agreements with building trade unions, a federal claims court ruled last week. |
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| The report focuses on ALEC's efforts to stop the [http://content.sierraclub.org/creative-archive/sites/content.sierraclub.org.creative-archive/files/pdfs/1131CleanPowerPlan_FactSheet_06_web.pdf Clean Power Plan], which sets the nation's first-ever protections against harmful carbon pollution by giving each state a carbon reduction goal to help cut national carbon pollution from power plants by 32% from 2005 levels by the year 2030. EPA has estimated that by 2030 the Clean Power Plan will prevent 150,000 asthma attacks and up to 6,600 premature deaths annually. The Clean Power Plan is an important part of the U.S. commitment to reduce harmful carbon pollution. Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/03/13067/alec-exposed-corporate-polluters-undermining-clean-power-virginia-see-more here].
| | Read the rest of this item [https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/01/31/alec-member-strikes-a-blow-against-rule-requiring-union-labor-on-federal-construction-projects/ here]. |
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