TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — It’s hardly a return to the Depression era, when company guards roughed up labor organizers at auto plants. But times are tough for unions in the Rust Belt, even in such a longtime bastion as Michigan. Here, emergency managers have been given the power to throw out union contracts in financially struggling cities.
Now, after a series of setbacks at the hands of Republican governors and legislatures, labor is attempting a bold gambit: a first-of-its-kind ballot initiative in the Nov. 6 election that would put collective bargaining rights in the Michigan constitution — and out of lawmakers’ reach.
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Wow...a death knell for Michigan if it passes.
I *do* look for the union label....and if I see it, I buy something else...
(and yes, 80 years ago unions help set the 5 day work week.....but since then, the thuggers have been stealing the taxpayer blind...)
Are the people of Michigan really this dumb??!? For that matter, even the unions should see the dangers of giving their 'leadership' this much power!
The AP, short for the Administration's Press calls the ballot initiative "If successful, the strategy could serve as a model for other states". A MODEL? Is compulsory union membership along with compulsary dues paying (which will then be used to pay off politicians) a MODEL for other states? If this God awful ballot passes, union leadership won't have to do anything for their compulsury members.
This would be the mother of many disasters. Unions own elections; they would own the states' constitutions.
OMIG: The unions have been donating their Memberships money to the Democrats since the beginning of time: No matter what the policital choice is of their members. Anyone who supports such a union right to be added to the Constitution is very foolish indeed. Opening up a can of worms.
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