…raise the wages. Strategy to Undercut Wages Discussed at ALEC The lawsuit is part of a coordinated legislative, legal and PR strategy detailed by an AHLA lobbyist at a recent…
Hotel Industry Spins Wage Hikes as Extreme while CEOs Rake in Millions
“Death by a Thousand Cuts” and ALEC’s Local Strategy for Attacking Unions
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…
More Corporations Flee as ALEC Rolls Out Its Legislative Agenda
…corporate exodus from ALEC has continued with Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, Overstock.com, SAP America, AOL, and Emerson Electric all announcing that they had left ALEC or would soon leave ALEC….
Facebook Plans to Cut Ties With ALEC
…It is not known whether Facebook still funds SPN. With Facebook’s departure, over 82 corporations have publicly left ALEC since the Center for Media and Democracy launched ALECexposed in 2011….
Edelman Makes a Climate Change Pledge, But Forgets About ALEC
…ALEC. Edelman had been brought in to help ALEC in 2012, following the launch of CMD’s ALEC Exposed project, and after the death of teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida. ALEC…
How ALEC Fronts for Fossil Fuels
…considered “model legislation” related to the ALEC resolutions on CO2. ALEC isn’t stopping there, though. More is on its way at the ALEC annual meeting in Dallas in late July….
Who Is Behind the National Right to Work Committee and its Anti-Union Crusade?
…of 2010, it was a top agenda item at the December 2010 ALEC meeting. According to a 2010 email from ALEC to Wisconsin legislators that CMD obtained, ALEC referred to…
One of the Koch Family-Controlled Foundations Has Quietly Folded
…pushing the agenda favored by Koch. This includes millions of dollars, cumulatively, provided to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society and some state-based think…
Revealed: ALEC’s 2014 Attacks on the Environment
…of the ALEC “model” bills, but both fracking bans and federal oversight have been a focus at recent ALEC conferences. For example, at the August 2013 ALEC conference in Chicago,…
Documents from Open Records Lawsuit Further Undermine Claims that ALEC Is Legislator-Driven
…was researching ALEC, its staff told her ALEC doesn’t track its legislation. ALEC and its staff took to twitter in late 2013 to repeat the claim, publicly, that “we don’t…
