Posted on 12/06/2012 5:23:03 PM PST by taildragger
Edited on 12/06/2012 5:28:08 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WXYZ) - Republicans rushed right-to-work legislation through the Michigan Legislature Thursday, drawing raucous protests from hundreds of union supporters, some of whom were pepper-sprayed by police when they tried to storm the Senate chamber.
With six-vote margins in both chambers, the House and Senate approved measures prohibiting private unions from requiring that nonunion employees pay fees. The Senate was debating a similar bill, with Democrats denouncing it as an attack on worker rights and the GOP sponsor insisting it would boost the economy and jobs. Separate legislation dealing with public-sector unions was expected to come later.
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The Badger? A fast frigate? If so, I’ve been on that ship, too!
(when I was in third grade, my brother was in the Navy aboard that ship)
Imagine if the 17th Amendment were repealed - We’d be rid of Karl Marx Levin and Fat Deb too.
Nope - go to www.ssbadger.com for the history.
I was an AFL-CIO member myself and hated it. I called union dues my “Union Tax” because unions are just one more layer of unresponsive government.
This good news from Michigan and other states with recent right-to victories has been brought to us by Barack Obama’s failed economic policies, which have hastened the destruction of unions and the corrupt cities they dominate.
Take what’s left of Detroit...please. The only thing that’s been growing in Detroit during the Obama years has been its poverty level.
As unions continue to lose power in non-productive Democratic Detroit, the productive, anti-union Republican areas of Michigan correspondingly gain power in the state legislature, with yesterday’s results.
After four more years of Obama, will unions like the UAW still exist? If the so-far courageous Republican governors in the Midwest don’t go wobbly, no.
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, you’re free at last!
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