| Someone was kind enough to send this along. It's from Gongwer. The chances of the Legislature pursuing right-to-work legislation that would bar mandatory union membership or dues for workers covered by collective bargaining agreements appears to be increasing substantially, Gongwer News Service has learned. Senate Republicans are expected to address the topic at their retreat today and decide whether to proceed. But expectations, from several sources, are that so much of the caucus wants to push forward that it is difficult to imagine reversing the tide now. No bill has been introduced, but expectations are that the bill would exempt police officers and fire fighters, meaning those workers could still be required to join their union or pay union dues.
Going against the advice of every major newspaper in the state, the state Chamber of Commerce, every piece of polling data of what the state's citizens and the governor ... that's what they're doing. They're also setting up a giant battle that'll suck all the oxygen out of the room after enough signatures are gathered to put the thing before voters, who will shoot it down ... unless, of course, they attach to it an appropriation for education to make it referendum proof. Michigan will become unmanageable less than a month after voters rejected a ballot proposal that would have made the state unmanageable. This is the logical conclusion of both term limits and partisan redistricting. |
