Weekly/biweekly Michigan legislative activism thread
Michigan Action Alert on Right To Work
Posted on 12/07/2012 4:04:55 PM PST by raptor22
Right To Work: Both chambers of the Michigan legislature pass bills banning union dues as a condition of employment as a Detroit city councilwoman wonders when the pork will arrive. The choice is growth vs. stagnation.
Reports of the GOP's demise may be greatly exaggerated, at least at the state level, as Michigan, birthplace of the modern labor movement and unionism, stands poised to become the nation's 24th right-to-work (RTW) state. If it goes ahead, it will join recent addition Indiana in challenging union power as Gov. Scott Walker successfully did in Wisconsin.
Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, is poised to sign the landmark legislation. Both GOP-controlled chambers approved measures prohibiting private unions from requiring dues.
The senate quickly followed by voting to impose the same requirement on most public unions. Because of rules requiring a five-day delay between votes in the two chambers on the same legislation, final enactment could not take place until Tuesday at the earliest.
As in Wisconsin, news of the latest challenge to union power met with throngs descending on the state capitol in Lansing. Hell hath no fury like union leaders threatened with a cutoff of union dues needed to fund the political campaigns of their benefactors.
The benefits of RTW laws and the need of Michigan to become an RTW state is self-evident. In an interview with the Associated Press, Snyder, governor of a state with a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 9.3%, said one reason for his support of the RTW legislation was reports that some 90 companies have decided to locate next door in Indiana since that state adopted right-to-work legislation.
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There is no right to pork in Dearborn.
Sorry. That would be ‘OINKERS’ and ‘Hooves’. It’s late.
Yo Dude what’s up with the racism?
Hahahaha, great quip!
What do you think?
Not good.
To: Doc Savage
Yo Dude what’s up with the racism?
7 posted on Friday, December 07, 2012 7:49:03 PM by JoeProBono
Right church wrong pew
“Gimme Bama phone!”
Michigan has a GOP Gov..and a GOP Legislature..but idiotically voted for manchild last month????????? please reconcile that!
That’s easy. A terrible Republican candidate unable to articulate anything on his own to refute the Left’s narrative about him.
We must have candidates able to work around the media machine.
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