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NEW: The ALEC faithful descend on Atlanta this week to take on "woke capitalism," women's right to abortion, voting rights, China, Big Tech, the administrative state, and more. Check out what's on the agenda.
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The meeting kicked off last night w/ a celebration of the SCOTUS’s recent ruling on Roe v. Wade over “late night dessert and coffee” w/the extremist anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which is now seeking a total ban on abortion in every state, w/no exceptions

ALEC members will discuss changes to its State Government Employee Retirement Protection Act. The revisions would prohibit anyone managing state, local, or university public pensions from considering the climate emergency or other social factors when investing pension funds.

In an effort to exploit COVID for their own goals, ALEC lawmakers will debate a resolution that would “impanel an investigation into the extent to which the Biden White House pressured social media platforms to restrict and remove information and comments related to” the pandemic

At this week’s annual meeting, ALEC continues its aggressive push to rewrite the Constitution with its Article V Application for a Federal Fiscal Responsibility Amendments Convention to Curb Runaway Inflation and Restore Fiscal Sanity.

This latest effort urges Congress to call a convention based on wacky math that brings together state resolutions going back more than a century to claim that the requisite threshold of 34 states was reached in 1979 and that its proposed amendments will somehow end inflation.

ALEC lawmakers will also consider a model bill to decide whether state governments should have the ability to force power plant operators to stay open. The model also suggests that companies may be forced to “preserve” retired power plants for future use.

ALEC has never been a friend to workers, and this year is no different with its introduction of the duplicitously titled Protecting Businesses and Workers Act.

The new model bill actually does nothing to ‘protect’ workers since it preempts local labor and contract regulations related to wages, benefits, scheduling, and hours. If passed, it would effectively ban minimum wage ordinances, along with local family or sick leave mandates.

ALEC will ask its members to debate the Overtime Exceptions and Class Actions Prohibition Act. This model further restricts work activities that qualify for overtime pay & requires written consent of employees being included in class action suits relating to overtime pay abuses.