Paul Kersey [Mackinac Center]

Paul Kersey is director of labor policy at the Illinois Policy Institute and served as director of labor policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy from September 2007 to May 2012.

Kersey holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. In 1993, he received his Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois.

After practicing law in Livonia, Mich., for several years, Kersey served on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform and Oversight Committee. He then spent three years at the National Right to Work Committee as director of state legislation. In that role, he analyzed and responded to labor legislation in all 50 states.

Do Government Unions Really Need All That Money?

Published on March 15, 2012

Would Michigan Have Been Better Off if the Sit-Down Strike had Failed?

Published on Feb. 15, 2012

What a Right-to-Work Law Will Mean For Indiana

Published on Jan. 19, 2012

Commentary: It's Time to Repeal Prevailing Wage Law

Published on Jan. 16, 2012 – Michigan Capitol Confidential

What a Right-to-Work Law Will Mean for Indiana — and Michigan

Published on Jan. 9, 2012 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Do We Really Need a Unionized State Government?

Published on Nov. 7, 2011 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Government Employee Union Contract Database Now Available

Published on Nov. 7, 2011 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

How to Defuse PERA’s Ticking Time Bomb

Published on Aug. 8, 2011 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Binding Arbitration Bill Mostly Preserves the Status Quo

Published on July 19, 2011

Grand Traverse County Commission Poised to Pass Freedom to Work Resolution

Published on July 8, 2011 – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Time to Abolish Project Labor Agreements

Published on July 7, 2011

Does the NLRB Really Expect Businesses to Ignore Strikes?

Published on June 6, 2011 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Does the NLRB Really Expect Businesses to Ignore Strikes?

Published on May 10, 2011

Big Labor, Partisan Politics and Academic Independence

Published on April 14, 2011

Government Unions Protest to Bankrupt Local Governments

Published on March 9, 2011 – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Executive Budget Takes on Government Employee Compensation

Published on March 7, 2011 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Public Union Reform Is Where the Money Is

Published on Feb. 19, 2011 – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Scheduled Saginaw Prevailing Wage Repeal Vote Quietly Killed

Published on Jan. 7, 2011 – Michigan Capitol Confidential

It Shouldn’t Take a Superhero to Fix Public Education

Published on Nov. 8, 2010 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Unions Would Benefit From a Right-to-Work Law

Published on Oct. 18, 2010

Escape Is Never the Safest Path

Published on Sept. 17, 2010

PowerPoint Postscript

Published on Aug. 20, 2010

An Open Letter to Rick Snyder

Published on Aug. 13, 2010

An Open Letter to Virg Bernero

Published on Aug. 12, 2010

Oakland County Gives Local Governments Something to Shoot For

Published on Aug. 9, 2010 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

Federal Labor Board Sets Up Snap Union Elections

Published on July 8, 2010

Analysis: The Man Who Would Be (Bob) King

Published on June 24, 2010 – Michigan Capitol Confidential

New School Pension Reforms Will Be Worthless

Published on June 23, 2010

More and More a Political Animal

Published on June 7, 2010 – Viewpoint on Public Issues

A Law Unto Itself

Whether the standards that the community establishes for police officers be strict or lenient, the setting and enforcement of standards for police conduct is a duty that must be performed by local officials under the scrutiny of citizens themselves. Oversight of law enforcement is a role that should never be bargained with a union or delegated to arbitration. … more

Published on May 25, 2010

Tools

By Paul Kersey