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Breaking: Right-to-Work legislation passes Michigan State House.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 6th, 2012 at 05:30 PM  | 

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The Monroe News has reported that the legislation (part of House Bill 4054) just (4:45 PM) passed 58-52 in the state house, and will now go to the State Senate (I’m being told that the Senate will vote on this legislation within five business days).  Governor Rick Snyder (R) has already indicated that he will sign the legislation if it gets to his desk; given that the Michigan Senate has a two-to-one Republican majority, this is likely to occur.  Right-to-work opponents have already showed their disapproval of the measure, to the point where the cops had to use pepper spray to get control of the Michigan State Capitol.  All in all, today’s demonstration is unlikely to be the only response by Big Labor to Michigan’s union reform bill/law, in the same way that water is somewhat wet and the sun’s surface can get a trifle warm sometimes.

More as it happens.

UPDATE: Annnnnd Fox News reports that they’ve just passed a similar bill in the Senate.  Five-day delay before the final version gets passed; I assume that the first labor-induced (I am so dreadfully sorry for that) rioting has been tentatively penciled in for Monday morning.

Moe Lane (“Breaking: Right-to-Work legislation passes Michigan State House.“)

 

 

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  • tngal

    I really don’t get Michiganders. They’re smart enough to have a Republican state leaders but then paradoxically elect Obama 54-44. They know Obama is against right to work. It can’t be because right to work means more jobs, because if they were really interested in jobs they would not have voted for Obama with his anti business, tax raising, regressive policies.

  • mikefisk

    As a former Michigander, I can tell you – most of the red parts of Michigan are something like 60-40 or 65-35, whereas the few blue parts in and around Detroit Metro are more like 90-10 the other way. There aren’t as many of them in state legislature, but they get the people to show up in statewide races, especially for a Democrat from Detroit (part of what helped Snyder win in 2010 – the Democrats nominated the mayor of Lansing, who wasn’t able to get the same support from the Detroit machine that the likes of Stabenow or Levin can, or Granholm did).

  • http://www.bohnetlaw.com rightappeal

    Guess our reign here in Indiana as the only right to work state in the Midwest didn’t last long. Good move for Michigan. I wonder if this will spur other states in the region to follow suit.

  • Hafeed

    I’m speechless. When I first started hearing about this I thought this was just a pipe dream. I suppose so many decades of decline has finally led the people to say ‘enough.’

  • keepcoolwithcoolidge

    Wisconsin too.

  • keepcoolwithcoolidge

    PA, WI, AS, and OH are all states that have majority Republican legislatures and Republican Governors but no right-to-work legislation. Throw in MO too since they have a super-majority that could override a hypothetical Jay Nixon veto. Long game indeed.

  • freemanja1991

    AS? as in American Samoa? Or what do u mean, Alaska (AK)?

  • freemanja1991

    Iowa has had right to work for about 40 years, and we even have dems who were afraid to touch the law when they were in power. Y’all weren’t the first.

  • BA Cyclone

    Quite a few “midwest” states are right-to-work, it’s just that nearly all are west of the Mississippi: http://benjamincampos.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Right-to-Work-StatesSTory.jpg

  • http://www.bohnetlaw.com rightappeal

    You’re right, I should have said “industrial Midwest” or something to indicate I was thinking east of Illinois & Wisconsin. But we are the only right to work state that doesn’t border another right to work state. Until Michigan joins us.

  • apocomilitiaman

    This is a key strategy to starve the Democrats of their funding. Keep the pressure on and push for it in all 30 Republican Governor held states. Then implement mandatory drug testing for welfare benefits! Cut the funding and cut the support base by making it really hard to be a ward of the state!

  • keepcoolwithcoolidge

    Oops, I meant Alaska. My apologies.