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 Upper Hand?
American are starting to fight back! Way to go Michigan!!! Home of Brad Keselowski, driver of the #2 Miller Lite Dodge and the NASCAR 2012 Champ! Woot!
Ping.
Until a judge decides otherwise
Didn't you get the memo that unions are GOOD?
Wow! This is HUGE! Glad to see it. Hope it stands, legally! Wisconsin should be following suit in the next session. :)
From what I’ve heard the Michigan supreme court is heavily conservative, which most likely means if a court strikes it down it won’t be at state level. Besides, RTW laws are in use through out the USA and I doubt any grounds for striking it down could be found.
We have a conservative controlled supreme court so any fight will have to go to the feds and I’m not sure they can claim jurisdiction.
Exactly. Besides, this doesn’t take the right to unionize. Its pretty hard to justify forcing people to join.
They can see for themselves what the UAW did to Detroit.
courts have declared state constitutional amendments to be unconstitutional! Liberals don’t need any good legal grounds
I hope they can start to break the “quasi-legal” mafias!
I remember speaking to a relative several years ago, who was a “union steward” about his fears of direct deposit of paychecks, and his frustration that the union forced him to work to regain the job of a drunk at work union member, who was busted with a DWI driving a company truck.
I had to laugh about his concerns regarding the paycheck “issue”. I explained the feds and the State of Michigan already know how much each employee is paid, because the company bookkeepers have to report that every month.
It's not like tax cheating scams work if you are paid as an hourly or salaried employee of a large publically traded company.
The government already knew how much employees made that week, and took their cut first!
As for his supposed duty to “save the job” of the driver who chose to drive a company truck while drunk out of his mind...I asked him how he lived with himself.
They can see for themselves what the UAW did to Detroit.
Not just Detroit. The UAW has had it’s hand in screwing up the whole country. When they go on strike it hurts suppliers around the nation.
The state should now pass a bill to classify unions as corporations and make them pay taxes.
Congrats, Michigan! I hope Wisconsin can join you soon. However, we have had our hands full just keeping the PUBLIC EMPLOYEE unions at bay; not sure how the private unions will go for this yet.
It’s better than that.
MI Supreme Ct. Justice Hathaway is rat sponsored and is under investigation by the FBI through a mortgage fraud scheme, she’s done.
And will probably cop a plea deal to avoid prison.
MI Supreme Ct. will get another conservative seat, adding to the majority.
But does it apply to employer formed unions such as staffing agencies?
I really don’t know. I’ve never had any experience with them outside of temp services and the last thing they wanted was a union.
What happened in Wisconsin with the Walker issues, along with Indiana going RTW, had a lot to do with MI piling on in the upper Midwest today.
The unions really over-stepped their value here when they crammed a ballot issue aka Prop. 2 here, a pre-emptive strike to defend parasitical collective bargaining in our state constitution.
They got creamed. But just know Walker had a lot to do with inspiring our Gov. Snyder to stand up and do the right thing.
And MI wasn’t remotely in the same mess WI was a couple years ago, so your good people gave us a favor and we are paying you back!
I love Wisconsin (except the Badgers LOL) and we vacationed there this year.
Wow, the drought in southern WI was just awful, worse than here, really painful to see all those dead farms.
One big difference though between our sister states, you have a continuing mess in your state senate, ours is a 2:1 bullet proof, veto proof, GOP majority.
Right to work in Michigan is only 5 days away.
And may Wisconsin be next!
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