Labor Board Says Teacher Union Committed an Unfair Labor Practice and Acted “arbitrarily, indifferent and reckless”

Michigan Employment Relations Commission orders Taylor School District and Taylor Federation of Teachers to stop coercing teachers to financially support union

February 17, 2015

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Mackinac Center Sues Michigan Liquor Control Commission Over FOIA Fees

State agency attempts to charge $1,550 for copying spreadsheet data that already exists onto a flash drive

January 22, 2015

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Gov. Snyder’s 2015 State of the State Address Included Six Proposed Government Expansions, One Limitation

January 20, 2015

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Analysis: High Cigarette Taxes Contributing to Increased Smuggling Rates in Michigan, Elsewhere

One-quarter of Michigan’s total cigarette consumption in 2013 was smuggled into the state, according to Center analysts

January 14, 2015

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Legislators Miss 1,626 Votes in 2014

Down from 21,000 when MichiganVotes.org started in 2001

December 30, 2014

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Mackinac Center Receives Two-Year, $1 Million Research Grant from The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation

Research aimed to help schools become more ‘responsive, measurable and efficient’

December 3, 2014

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Second Edition of Michigan High School Report Card Gives ‘Apples-to-Apples’ Comparison of School Performance by Adjusting for Students’ Family Poverty Levels

Dearborn Heights charter public school retains top rank statewide

November 20, 2014

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New Study Details How Unions Can Adapt for the 21st Century, Stem Membership Decline

‘The way for unions to grow again is to compete for the voluntary support of new members, providing added value to each worker, and focusing on their individual needs’ After Election Day defeat, recommendations for labor’s renaissance

November 11, 2014

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Michigan’s Criminal Code Most Expansive in Region

Residents face punishment for helping children board school buses, disposing of spare tires, and raising livestock; state is adding 45 new crimes to the books each year

October 28, 2014

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Brighton Teachers Union, School Board Acquiesce to Center Lawsuit, Strike Illegal Language from Contract

‘Legislature still needs to look at impropriety of release time’ ‘Similar illegal contract language found in Okemos’

October 24, 2014

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Two-Thirds of School Districts Contract for at Least One Major Support Service, According to Center’s 2014 School Privatization Survey

Federal school lunch regulations could be driving increase in food service contracting

October 23, 2014

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Brighton Teacher Who Served in Afghanistan Sues Union, School District Over Right-to-Work Violation

‘What part of opting out does the union not understand?’

October 15, 2014

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SEIU Allowed to Keep Millions in ‘Dues’ Money it Siphoned Away from Medicaid in Stealth Unionization, Court of Appeals Rules

‘Union has refused every opportunity to defend Granholm administration and itself in concocting this scheme’

September 22, 2014

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Labor Law Judge Rules MEA’s So-Called ‘August Window’ Is Illegal

Holding recommends MEA must publish in its own magazine admission that it committed unfair labor practices

September 4, 2014

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Survey Finds Issues With One-Quarter of Teacher Contracts Regarding Michigan’s Right-to-Work Law

‘Thousands of teachers could be misled’

September 3, 2014

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Mackinac Center Joins Nationwide Effort to Celebrate Employee Freedom Week

Many unions, like the MEA, only allow members to resign during specified ‘windows’ that curb members’ rights

August 11, 2014

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Policy Brief: Proposal 1 Would Result in Net $500 Million Tax Break Annually

‘Taxing machinery and equipment discourages growth’

July 2, 2014

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U.S. Supreme Court Rules Home-Based Caregivers in Nine States Free from Union Dues Skim

Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed two briefs at the High Court regarding the case

June 30, 2014

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Michigan Employment Relations Commission Rules Again that Graduate Student Research Assistants Cannot be Unionized

‘Recognized that our clients are students and not employees’

June 20, 2014

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Mackinac Center Requests Michigan Liquor Control Commission Rescind Rule Requiring ‘Post and Hold’ for Beer and Wine Prices

‘It effectively imposes a form of government-facilitated price collusion’

June 19, 2014

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