ALEC is good at protecting the “rights” of corporations, not so good at encouraging its members to protect the legal rights of their employees.
ALEC Corporations Are Leaders in Workplace Discrimination and Harassment
By Don Wiener | at
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Koch Kumbaya: The Billionaire Industrialists Appropriate Frederick Douglass, Pledge to “Do Right”
By Mary Bottari | at
What are we to make of all the good news and talk of bipartisanship coming from the Koch camp?
Louisiana Senator Sharon Hewitt, ALEC’s Legislator of the Year, Voted “No” on Equal Pay for Equal Work
By Don Wiener | at
The fact that Louisiana has the worst gender pay gap in the nation doesn’t seem to bother her.
Meet Scott Beightol: Anti-Worker Corporate Lawyer and Scott Walker’s Lame Duck Pick for UW Board of Regents
By Maxwell Abbott | at
Scott Beightol defends corporations accused of racial, gender, and age discrimination, and employers who want to deny workers medical and family leave.
ALEC’s New Union-Busting Toolkit Illustrates the Goal Is to Bankrupt Unions Not Protect Workers
By Mary Bottari | at
ALEC’s post-Janus toolkit inadvertently sheds light on the real aims of the group’s union-busting activities.
Howard Buffett’s Border War
By Beau Hodai | at
A billionaire’s son is spending millions in Cochise County.
GOP Strips Rep. King of Posts, but ALEC Keeps White Supremacist State Chair
By David Armiak | at
Washington State Rep. Matt Shea keeps his leadership post in ALEC despite circulating a white nationalist manifesto calling for a violent Christian holy war.
Billionaire Eli Broad Takes Public Education Private
By ExposedByCMD Editors | at
Eli Broad is one of several mega-billionaires who have spent hundreds of millions on education think tank research and charter schools, shaping current trends in what they call education reform.
ALEC Union Busting Proposal Defeated in Michigan Lame Duck
By Don Wiener and Mary Bottari | at
Bill’s author never met the threshold for election that he is demanding for union recertification.
Michigan GOP Defies Voters, Rams ALEC, Koch Priorities Through Lame-Duck Session
By David Armiak and Scott Zimmerman | at
Unconstitutional voter restrictions, lower wages, less health care, donor secrecy, and union-busting add up to an agenda only the Koch brothers would love.