Glenn Hamer

WRITTEN TESTIMONY BY GLENN HAMER PRESIDENT AND CEO ARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY BEFORE THE HOUSE AD-HOC COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND COMMERCE FEBRUARY 10, 2014 Representatives Forese and Miranda and committee members, for the record my name is Glenn Hamer and I am the president and CEO of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce

It’s not yet Throwback Thursday, but the National Labor Relations Board announced today that it would resurrect a 2011 rule to speed up the Board election process and to eliminate defenses and procedures previously available to employers during a union election.If adopted, the rule would limit employers’ ability to communicate with employees during union campaigns by

The rollout of the Affordable Care Act has been a story of ineptitude. The ham-fisted attempts to launch the healthcare.govwebsite alone have provided newspaper opinion pages enough material for a year of editorials. Prior to the passage of the Act, the Arizona Chamber was very vocal about the many contradictions and bad public policy contained

Republican U.S. House members today released their guiding principles for a debate on immigration reform. The Senate last year passed its own immigration package, but the GOP principles document in its preamble makes clear that the House legislation won’t go to a conference committee to be reconciled with the Senate’s bill; and that’s okay. The

This morning I had the opportunity to sit on a panel kicking off School Choice Week in Arizona. I sat alongside esteemed education experts including Lisa Graham Keegan; Julia Meyerson, the founder and E.D. of Vista College Prep; Adrian Ruiz, the Executive Director of Espiritu Community Development Corporation; and DeAnna Rowe, the Executive Director of

When it comes to baseball, George Will knows his stuff. Unfortunately, he has missed the mark in his recent piece on the movement to increase the rigor of K-12 education in 45 states, including in Arizona. George does get one part of this right: Academic standards are a state issue. This is why our primary

Earlier this week at her State of the State address, Gov. Jan Brewer announced her plan to make Arizona a better place for manufacturers to operate and conduct business in the state. Manufacturers help to drive Arizona’s economy, with $15.1 billion in manufactured goods exported in 2012. Of those, $7.7 billion was with our free

A Guest Post from Gretchen Martinez, executive director of the Arizona Chamber Foundation and Katie Fischer, research analyst for the Arizona Chamber Foundation Here at the Arizona Chamber Foundation, we don’t get out much. Typically, you can find us buried in the books, getting deep in the weeds on the issues that impact the Arizona

I had the privilege today of being on the floor of the state House of Representatives as  a guest of Speaker of the House Any Tobin for Gov. Jan Brewer’s State of the State address. I was thrilled that Mexican Consul General Roberto Rodriguez Hernandez delivered remarks to the assembled representatives and guests before the