wazi99
12-11-2012, 02:29 PM
The Michigan house passed two right-to-work laws today - one focused on public sector workers, and one focused on private-sector workers - as protesters supporting unions chanted "shame on you" and "union busting is disgusting." The bills passed the Republican-led Michigan Senate last week, and will be sent to Snyder following procedural actions.
Right-to-work legislation, which is currently in place in 23 states, prevents agreements in which employees are required to pay union dues. American workers can't be forced to join unions, but many unions and companies have agreements in which all employees must pay union dues.
Read more here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57558532/right-to-work-poised-to-become-law-in-michigan/
Now let’s all be clear you can still have a union in a Right to Work state you just can’t force someone to join to keep their job if they do not want to.
As a Michigan native I love this. When I was in high school I spent summers working to put office furniture together. One job we had was a new office building that was just finishing construction. It turned out that the people who owned the building where not Union but the constitutions workers where. We had to leave as they wouldn't let nonunion workers come in until the following week when they turned it over to the owner.
Unions have become a joke and are far from what they were back in the early 1900s. No longer do they look out for the middle class they now look out for themselves.
But this is far from done as Unions plan to play dirty to try and get it over turned.
Legislation limiting the power of unions is headed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/job-creation-debate-illustrates-volley-of-claims-over-right-to-work-as-michigan-decision-nears/2012/12/10/9f780f72-4330-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html) to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s desk, where the Republican will almost certainly sign “right to work” into law.
But union organizers say they can still undo the contentious legislation, which bars the mandatory collection of labor dues.
Michigan Republicans attached a spending measure to the bill (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/10/the-michigan-right-to-work-battle-explained/), which means it cannot be undone by referendum. However, unions say that they can still undo the new law by statutory initiative.
Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2012/12/11/unions-say-michigan-law-can-be-undone/
Right-to-work legislation, which is currently in place in 23 states, prevents agreements in which employees are required to pay union dues. American workers can't be forced to join unions, but many unions and companies have agreements in which all employees must pay union dues.
Read more here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57558532/right-to-work-poised-to-become-law-in-michigan/
Now let’s all be clear you can still have a union in a Right to Work state you just can’t force someone to join to keep their job if they do not want to.
As a Michigan native I love this. When I was in high school I spent summers working to put office furniture together. One job we had was a new office building that was just finishing construction. It turned out that the people who owned the building where not Union but the constitutions workers where. We had to leave as they wouldn't let nonunion workers come in until the following week when they turned it over to the owner.
Unions have become a joke and are far from what they were back in the early 1900s. No longer do they look out for the middle class they now look out for themselves.
But this is far from done as Unions plan to play dirty to try and get it over turned.
Legislation limiting the power of unions is headed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/job-creation-debate-illustrates-volley-of-claims-over-right-to-work-as-michigan-decision-nears/2012/12/10/9f780f72-4330-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html) to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s desk, where the Republican will almost certainly sign “right to work” into law.
But union organizers say they can still undo the contentious legislation, which bars the mandatory collection of labor dues.
Michigan Republicans attached a spending measure to the bill (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/10/the-michigan-right-to-work-battle-explained/), which means it cannot be undone by referendum. However, unions say that they can still undo the new law by statutory initiative.
Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2012/12/11/unions-say-michigan-law-can-be-undone/