January 25, 2011. "When you get past the anecdotal eye-openers, the numbers don't show a big, rich public trough for public retirees."
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23.012011January 29, 2011
FEA Frontline Report: Freshman Rep. Files HB303 on Retirement
January 23, 2011 (Updated Jan. 29 w/ link to HB 303). Much of the proposed legislation involves fire and police retirement and may go nowhere, Major changes to DROP
19.012011January 20, 2011
News Roundup / Links to News on Florida Politics
January 19, 2011. State lawmakers in Florida and elsewhere look to public employee pensions to prop up budgets
14.012011January 13, 2011
Some Simple Truths About the Florida Retirement System
January 14, 2011. Florida legislators are attacking "among the five most financially sound state pensions in the nation."
14.012011January 14, 2011
Education “Reform” Group Hails Scott’s “To-Do List”
January 14, 2011. More vouchers and charter schools, Tenure to be eliminated for K-12 teachers
13.012011February 2, 2011
Florida Senate Ready to End Free Retirement for Teachers and State Workers
By jamestrcyIn HomeTags Budget, faculty, faculty salaries, Florida State Senate, Jeremy Ring, State pensions
January 13, 2011. "Core part" of changes to involve employee contributions.
12.012011January 12, 2011
Florida Retail Federation: “Yes, Unions, Pension Reform is Coming”
January 12, 2011. "Scott hasn't expressly called for an end to collective bargaining -- which could begin to effect such changes -- but the writing is on the wall."
06.012011January 8, 2011
Crackdown on Organized Labor: States Call for Wage & Benefits Cuts, Urge Laws to Curb Union Influence
January 6, 2011. Watch the video! Democracy Now! hosts a roundtable discussion with New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, Michael Zweig of the Center for Study of Working Class Life, and Art Levine of the Washington Monthly.
04.012011January 4, 2011
NY Times: States Seek Laws to Curb Power of Unions
January 4, 2011. Labor leaders say it's Republican payback for unions' support of Democratic political candidates
02.012011January 2, 2011
Can Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott Run the State Like a Business?
January 2, 2011. "Since his election, he's given every indication he will take a CEO's approach to government ... Advisers compare his goals to when he was building his mega-corporation, gobbling up hundreds of hospitals and then slashing their expenditures, staffs or shuttering them entirely."