2011 Senate Bill 116: Make Michigan a "right-to-work" state (Senate Roll Call 862)
Weekly/biweekly Michigan legislative activism thread
Michigan Action Alert on Right To Work
Posted on 12/07/2012 9:30:06 PM PST by quantim
LANSING, MI — Union members say their fight isn’t over after the House and Senate passed bills to make Michigan a right-to-work state.
After a long day of protesting inside and outside the state Capitol, union leaders called on members to attend civil disobedience training on Saturday, and return to Lansing for more protests on Tuesday.
“We’ve got to rebuild the broad social justice movement; I think this is going to energize people,” said United Auto Workers President Bob King. “All this administration has done is attack working people, so it’s our job to go out and talk in our communities…”
Union members will learn how to protest, get noticed, stay safe and conduct themselves in a peaceful way, said SEIU Michigan State Council President Marge Robinson-Faville.
The training will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at UAW Local 600 in Dearborn.
Members will meet at the Lansing Center to protest the right-to-work bills on Tuesday, which is the next scheduled session day for the legislature.
“Never have all the unions come together as strong as they have now,” King said. “In every crisis there’s opportunity; we've got to make this the opportunity that changes Michigan, as we’re trying to change this country to be about working families again.”
Hundreds -- if not a few thousand -- union members and others gathered at the Capitol for hours on Thursday, chanting against the right-to-work bills.
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If you look at the pics out there this socialist drama is nothing like Occupy Wisconsin or the Fleebaggers.
It does not matter, Obama might have got the federal PIE vote here in MI, but not the local vote. Ask Virg Bernero.
The only reason am posting this is that don't see the bloody violence like the unions did here decades ago, beating people with pipes where workers lined up at the gates lined up to work, those days are over.
After all it was shafted democrats that carried over to elect Snyder.
Gov. Snyder is showing some real courage here, please support personal liberty.
I hate Unions.
Unions suck. As a retired police officers, I was required to be a member of a union. Over a span of 28 years I was required to contribute a percentage of my paycheck to the local police union. I never received anything in return.
That money never came back to me ... money lost.
Unions suck.
Ever notice that the ‘Rats are only in favor of the democratic process if they win.
Unions are parasitic, especially public sector unions. They cannot exist in and of themselves. They need a host, preferably a healthy host. If they suck too much of the life out of the host, the host dies - except for government because government has the power to tax - and when the host dies, most of the union members die also. All the unfair labor practices attacked by unions are now the law of the land. So, why do we still have unions?
To employ Union Bosses!
Ah, the old UAW Local 600, the heart of the Communist Party movement in the auto industry.
If you don’t believe me, read Michael Kernan (sp) and his book on the “UAW and the Communist Party”.
Both John Conyers Sr and Jr (i.e. Congressman John Conyers) were in Local 600.
Look at the leaders and you will know what’s what.
i wonder if “How to enjoy being pepper sprayed in the face” is part of the training.
i wonder if “How to enjoy being pepper sprayed in the face” is part of the training.
correction: The name of the author is Roger Keeran and his book, sympathetic to the Communist Party USA is “The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Union”, International Publishers (i.e. the CPUSA’s publishing arm), 1980, ppb, 1986.
A good book to have about CPUSA penetration and leadership of the labor unions during the 1930s/40’s.
In the issue of “Labor History, Summer 1994, Vol. 35, #3, Harvey Klehr & John Haynes exposed secret CPUSA Central Committee members as among the top labor union leaders in the US (as early as 1934). Among them was Harry Bridges (ILWU); Donald Henderson (United Canning, Agricultural, packing & Allied Workers of America) CIO; William Mauseth (International Association of Machinists) - later took them into the completely CPUSA controlled United Electrical Workers CIO; and “Morgan”, aka Wyndham Mortimer, the first vic-president of the UAW.
If it weren’t for internal fighting, Mortimer would have become president of the UAW in the 1940’s. For the next decade, the CPUSA fought the “socialists” of Walter and Victor Reuther”, losing in the end. Conyer Sr went with the Reuther UAW and became an international VP.
Both Reuthers were “socialists” with Victor being just an extremist as the communists he fought.
Now you know something about the heritage of the UAW.
I think conservatives should show up for that training, too. There is plenty which we need to protest and disobey.
I proudly boycott their junk. Thank God for Honda, Toyota, and Nissan.
Just what ubango ordered. welcome to greece, top down bottom up sez van jones this is just the begining
I’d guess she’s talking about conflicting reports and didn’t visit the scene herself.
Sorry commies. The American workers can’t afford to support your goat-smelling asses any more. GET A JOB, KNUCKLEDRAGGERS!
Hmmmm...just beginning to see how the hot CW III might break down....
——— I never received anything in return.———
You paid for President Obama’s election with the interest earned off your payments
In the communist playbook you see that they strive for a breakdown of the civil disorder. The unions are aware of that, and are only too glad to help the cause.
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