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| <h2 style="margin:3px; background:#CC0000; font-size:140%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #CC0000; text-align: left; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">ALEC News</h2>
| | <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> |
| <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12782 The ALEC-Backed War on Local Democracy]</h3> | | [[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. |
| by [http://www.prwatch.org/users/35270/mary-bottari Mary Bottari] and by [http://www.prwatch.org/users/35275/brendan-fischer Brendan Fischer]
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| [[Image:Stop-Meddling_city_hall350px.jpg|350|center]]After the town of Denton, Texas passed a ballot initiative banning fracking in November 2014, the oil and gas industry reacted with outrage and swiftly filed suit. Politicians in the state capitol responded with a fusillade of bills to preempt local authority over public health and safety and to subject local ballot initiatives to pre-approval by the state attorney general. There was even a bill to end local home rule altogether.
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| The tiny town of Denton was not alone. From New Jersey to Oregon, on topics as diverse as minimum wage, paid sick leave, community broadband, e-cigarettes, and GMOs, state politicians are stepping up their efforts to destroy a bedrock principle of U.S. governance--the right of municipal and county authorities to legally and appropriately enact and strengthen laws that reflect local needs and priorities.
| | 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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| Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12782 here]. | |
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| <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12780 ALEC, NFIB Push Prevailing Wage Repeal]</h3> | | <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> |
| by [http://www.prwatch.org/users/35472/jody-knauss Jody Knauss]
| | [[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. |
| [[Image:Danger-Low_wage_construction350px.jpg|350|center|]]As unions and working people battle "right-to-work" legislation in several states, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and allies have opened another flank in their war on good jobs. Targeted this time are state prevailing wage laws, which require public construction projects to support local wage standards instead of undercutting them. Studies have repeatedly found that prevailing wage laws do not harm taxpayers but are effective in providing something increasingly rare in regional labor markets, upward pressure on wages. | |
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| Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12780 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://prwatch.org/news/2015/03/12779/bp-dumps-alec BP Dumps ALEC; Tally at 102]</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> |
| by [http://prwatch.org/users/35270/mary-bottari Mary Bottari]
| | [[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. |
| [[Image:Bp_sign_bp-dumps_alec600x350px.jpg|center|350px]]BP announced Monday that it was cutting ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, the controversial corporate bill mill. It is the third major fossil fuel company to sever ties with ALEC, after Occidental Petroleum in 2014. ExxonMobil remains on the ALEC private sector board. | |
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| As of March 2015, at least 102 corporations and 19 non-profits--for a total of 121 private sector members--have publicly announced that they cut ties with ALEC. You can see a full list of companies that have cut ties [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Corporations_that_Have_Cut_Ties_to_ALEC 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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| Read the rest of this item [http://prwatch.org/news/2015/03/12779/bp-dumps-alec here]. | |
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| <h3>[http://prwatch.org/node/12743/ Wisconsin Introduces Word-for-Word ALEC Right to Work Bill]</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> |
| by [http://www.prwatch.org/users/35275/brendan-fischer Brendan Fischer]
| | [[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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| Wisconsin Republicans have called a special session to take up a "right to work" measure attacking private sector unions--and the text of the bill, the Center for Media and Democracy has discovered, is taken word-for-word from American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) [http://alecexposed.org/w/images/c/c8/1R10-Right_to_Work_Act_Exposed.pdf model legislation].
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| See the side-by-side of the Wisconsin legislation and the ALEC bill [http://www.prwatch.org/files/wi_rtw.pdf 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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| Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12743 here]. | |
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| <h3>[http://www.prwatch.org/node/12746 “Death by a Thousand Cuts” and ALEC’s Local Strategy for Attacking Unions]</h3>
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| by [http://www.prwatch.org/users/35275/brendan-fischer Brendan Fischer]
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| [[Image:Stay_Union_Strong-No-RTF350pxW.jpg|center|350px]]The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) made headlines last week after Wisconsin Republicans introduced a virtually word-for-word copy of the ALEC “model” Right to Work Act, following on the heels of Michigan and other states that have taken up the ALEC-inspired anti-union measures in recent years.
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| But ALEC and its allies have also been pushing a new and unprecedented approach to defunding unions on a city-by-city basis through an ALEC offshoot, the American City County Exchange (ACCE). Since ACCE’s most recent meeting in December, so-called right to work laws on the local level have been enacted in several Kentucky counties, and discussed in other states such as Illinois and Ohio.
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| Read the rest of this item [http://www.prwatch.org/node/12746 here].
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