Developing: Pakistani Plane Escorted by UK Fighter Jets — 2 Men Arrested

Doc Thompson’s 24-hour radio marathon, ‘#24forok,’ continues until 9 am ET — Listen Live!

Business

UPDATED: Angry Union Protesters Shout Down Tea Partiers in Mich. (and State Rep. Vows Violence)

Dec. 11, 2012 11:36am Becket Adams

Although it’s pretty much a sure thing that Michigan will pass right-to-work legislation that prohibits unions from collecting fees from nonunion workers, pro-union activists are turning out in droves to fight the bill with everything they have.

And things are starting to heat up.

For instance, the following video shows peaceful Tea Partiers on the State Capitol building steps getting shouted down by a handful of angry union demonstrators [via Breitbart]:

“Hundreds streamed into the state Capitol at 7:30 a.m. when the Michigan State Police opened its doors to protesters who had been standing in line as early as 5:30 a.m.,” the Detroit News reports.

The State Capitol building has attracted both supporters and opponents of the bill.

“I left at about 7 o’clock last night, and I haven’t been to bed yet,” pro-right-to-work Keith Almli, who drove all night to get to the state building, told the Detroit News.

Another pro-right-to-work supporter voiced his opinion.

“Why should a person be a slave to unions because he or she wants to work,” asked Don Peterson, 73, of Williamston, Mich. “People should have the right to work without having to pay union dues.”

Eddie Nyhus, on the other hand, fiercely opposed the legislation.

“Without the union, you’re nothing but a slave,” said Nyhus.

Shunya Cleveland sided with Nyhus

“I’ve supported the Detroit Federation of Teachers, UAW, Uniroyal and now AFSCME,” said Cleveland. “This is just wrong. Isn’t that our building up there in Lansing? Don’t we support it with our tax dollars? We are going to throw barricades around that building.

“I’m going to jail today!”

As the day has progressed, it seems that words have become more heated, and insults more pointed:

Oh, and then there’s this:

“We are going to undo 100 years of labor relations. And there will be blood. We will relive the Battle of the Overpass.” -Geiss #SaveMI

— MI House Democrats (@MIHouseDems) December 11, 2012

Yes, State Representative Douglas Geiss just threatened right-to-work supporters from the floor of the Michigan House of Representatives.

UPDATE – According to the multiple Twitter users, the following videos show a group of alleged pro-union activists tearing down what appears to be a tent owned by Americans for Prosperity, a group that supports right-to-work legislation [warning: coarse language]:

Here’s a photo of the remains of the AFP tent [via the Detroit Free Press' Kathy Gray]:

As Mich. Legislature Nears Final Vote on Right to Work Law, Union Protesters Turn Desperate

(Twitter)

Stay tuned for more updates.

Follow Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) on Twitter

Benghazi, IRS, AP...What's next? Only TheBlaze TV offers the truth from Glenn Beck, Andrew Wilkow, and Real News from TheBlaze. Get instant access and a free trial here.

Back to The Blaze »

Comments (165)

Janet056
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:12pm
Finally the people are waking up that unions are no longer what they used to be….they are too political and in bed with Democrats, and see their power slowly slipping away….therefore the threats….One thing though, since when does Obammy have the right to stick his fat beak in, and get involved in a state issue? He is becoming more dictatorial each day, and is good at riling up his supporters when threatened. What tops this all off, most polls show that the people of Michigan want to be a right to work state. As for the teachers involved in the protests, fire them all. I’m sure there are qualified people who would gladly jump at the chance of a job these types so desparately take advantage of.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- searcher619
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:26pm
  more like the states are getting the balls to stand up to the unions. When i worked for an auto parts manufacturer in Indiana I was amazed to learn they were a non-union shop. We had union workers from the other manufacturing plants in the area always calling or stopping by asking if we were hiring. They complained about how they felt their union was ripping them off. This law forces unions to actually start doing right by their members or lose money. you know most members would not pay those dues and fees if it were up to them.
  
  Report this comment
- Silvertruth
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:49pm
  Until Unions realize that they are partners WITH the companies they represent and not adversaries to the management of the companies, they will have a propensity to be cancerous to the companies.
  
  Also, Unions need to have no paid staff beyond low level secretaries that keep the paperwork flowing properly. All management level Union workers need to get their paychecks like everyone else, from the company the Union is working with.
  
  No “Multi-Company” Unions should be allowed. Pipe Fitters, Teamsters, etc. Those huge Unions are little more than an industry price-fixing methodology at this point. It kills competitiveness and capitalism. Of course, that’s why Unions are socialist in nature, they don’t actually want a level playing field based on merit and competition.
  
  Report this comment
- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:51pm
  Well what did you all expect from the peaceful religion of Islam.
  
  oops sorry wrong story.
  Oh well I really dont see the difference so this comment applies.
  
  Report this comment
- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:00pm
  Yup. Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty is a GENUINE Constitutional Libertarian groups of folks, unlike a lot of FAKE-TEA GOP groups who POSE as Constitutional Libertarian… but are just plain ol’ republicans (Freedomworks, Tea Party Express, etc).
  
  Report this comment
- Red Meat
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:16pm
  Public service unions are the real enemy. These are just their pawns.
  
  Report this comment
- strawberry411a
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:27pm
  Greece. This country is history.
  
  Report this comment
- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:05pm
  RED MEAT…..You are right.
  
  Report this comment
- StandingOnMyHead
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:34pm
  The sheer amount of hostility in this country today is astounding!
  
  Report this comment
- Todd P
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:36pm
  It’s too little, too late. We have the Obamanation for another 4 years…..AT LEAST. And all the evil filth that goes with him. Things are going to get much, much worse. It’s like trying to bail the Titanic.
  
  Report this comment
- rawmilker
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 10:00pm
  Blood huh, well what you guys waitin on? lets get it started!!!!
  
  Report this comment
- armyofnibiru
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:59am
  they’ve become what they were created to fight.
  
  Report this comment
Bonnieblue2A
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:11pm
26,000 Michigan students had their teachers abandon their classrooms today in order to protest “choice” in regard to joining a union.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/18046

Meanwhile, only 7% of Detroit 8th graders can even read to their grade level.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- KangarooJack
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:16pm
  Excellent post- pretty much ‘sums it up’ doesn’t it?
  
  Report this comment
- gyro
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:19pm
  but under educated idiots make perfect union members ?
  
  Report this comment
- Taurnil
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:28pm
  Just another example of why unions are good for nothin’. They let union politics override their job responsibilities.
  
  Report this comment
- 48Straights
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:37pm
  Under educated idiots is what lost us America. The progressives have been working on that strategy for decades and now they have made their harvest.
  
  That is one thing I done get about Glen Beck followers and TheBlaze readers. In two days TheBlaze has reported about two real news stories. I see a big correlation between TheBlaze and Teachers Unions. Both are producing useful idiots by distracting its charges, and not informing them of the real news that matters.
  
  When it comes to producing uneducated people on the conservative side Glenn Beck Blazes the trail and works at the head of the classroom.
- irishjarhead
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:50pm
  …which is why they need unions. Anywhere else anyone with a failure to success ratio like that would be terminated. I would suggest that most of these teachers were probably recipients of Affirmative Action and a huge Bell curve, kind of like BroncO. These idiots reveal themselves daily.
  
  Report this comment
- mikem1969
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:21pm
  Good old union teachers for you. ALL UNIONS NEED TO BE ABOLISHED. They serve no true purpose any longer unless you count the 6 figure incomes of the union heads.
  
  Report this comment
- Canadaboy
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:52pm
  Ask us how teacher unions work, lazy, unaccountable and the kids be damned. Worst thing that ever happend to education and the taxpayer. $90,000 a year, massive pension, 20 sick days a year, carried over if not used, only work 8:00am – 3:00pm, more time off then the unemployed and yet, they still have the gall to call themselves “professionals” and are striking for more. Bastards, all of them.
  
  Report this comment
- ONLY4UANDME
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:09pm
  I guess the kids didn’t miss anything today.
  
  Report this comment
- 48Straights
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:54pm
  Thats funny Only, lol
  
  Report this comment
- jhrusky
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 5:57pm
  C’mon! You know it’s for the children!
  
  Report this comment
jessieH
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:10pm
Geiss must be removed from office, immedialy! You don’t threaten American Citizens, no way, no how! As for the union workers, why aren’t they working, on a weekday? The right to work people would be. They have pride & scruples, something the union guys don’t. Why do they care who joins a union & who doesn’t? Because the union bosses tell them it will hurt their income & benefits.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- ONLY4UANDME
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:13pm
  That is the best post yet! The people of Michigan should be yelling this from the roof tops louder than the whole union issue. Also, louder than the big mouth good for nothing union thugs.
  
  Report this comment
COFemale
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:07pm
Unions get quite testy when they have competition. What’s a matter big boys can’t handle the thought of people getting hired instead of you. If you are a good worker and not a slacker, you will have nothing to worry about. Also why do you care if someone else is hired at a less wage than you? It is not your concern. Mind your own business.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
right field
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:06pm
There was a time, in our past, where unions were needed – but that day has long been over. The Federal government has become the “nanny to the nation” and has laws, rules, taxes and Federal Courts that have made “big bad business” irrelevant. The trial lawyers and Federal Courts have made the days of “unfair labor practices” a mere memory. Now, ‘unfair labor practices’ only target those businesses and public jobs that are NOT part of a union. Every state needs to become a “right to work” state and public unions should be outlawed completely.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
FightingBear
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:06pm
I’d like to hear an articulate argument to why workers should not have a choice as to whether or not they want to join a union.

What could possibly be wrong with giving employees an option to join or not to join?

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- MrSunshine
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:19pm
  You’d like to hear an articulate argument? Don’t hold your breath fightingbear….we’re talking about unions remember.
  
  Report this comment
eminence88
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:00pm
Unions are masters at fomenting disunity.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
IKW
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:00pm
“Without the union, you’re nothing but a slave,” said Nyhus.”

All people without either the skills that the market desires or enables one to live completely independent, is a slave. They are either a slave to the company, the union or the government that pays them to be “less than excellent” in their endeavors. The weak coerce the strong to stand with them instead of standing on their own merits.

The “strike” is coming and it won’t be by the useless but by the strong…prepare my friends. ;-)

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- 702TruthSeeker
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 2:07pm
  unions = THUGS
  
  Report this comment
Cavallo
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:58am
Too little too late.. MI is going to suffer a lot after we go over the cliff. Cute they are trying to fix things, but it’ll take decades to repair.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Brother Winston Smith
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:57am
To be clear, Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty IS NOT “tea party.” They are some of the ORIGINAL TEA PARTIERS, before the “tea party” was CO-OPTED by the leftist republican party (FAKE-TEA GOP Freedomworks, FAKE-TEA GOP Tea Party Express, FAKE-TEA Palin, FAKE-conservative/libertarian Beck, etc).

Beck is part of the leftist republican party’s next diabolical move to try to CO-OPT Ron Paul’s Liberty Movement (of which C4L is part) for the LEFTIST republican party. I suspect this is why the Blaze is actually showing you C4L video, AFTER BLACKING OUT C4L AND RON PAUL during the presidential race (the 2012 Great Ron Paul Cheatout).

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:07pm
  WOW.Just Wow.
  
  Report this comment
- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:15pm
  You’re right. Everybody’s a commie except you.
  
  Report this comment
- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:16pm
  Holding a “money bomb” party for Ron Paul’s campaign on the anniversary of the Tea Party a Tea Party doesn’t make. Get a clue there lister of Obama enabling lists.
  
  Report this comment
- gyro
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:20pm
  amazing
  
  Report this comment
- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:25pm
  Ron Paul’s supporters did not organize the original nationwide events. After Rick Santelli’s historic rant on CNBC sparked nationwide attention on February 19, 2009, the Top Conservatives On Twitter community began to rally immediately to go into action…
  
  Report this comment
- searcher619
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:28pm
  Dude, you need to have your med levels checked. You aren’t making any sense and sound like a nut.
  
  Report this comment
- Fubared
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:06pm
  Bro Smith, said it before and still say it about daily, it was the lovely peeps such as yourself that got a real and decent platform ignored. You enabled the 0, and still have 0 to offer.
  
  Report this comment
- Capt_Gregg
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:27pm
  Ron Paul’s campaign was DOA — and it was Paul himself that killed it. He apparently over-estimated his popularity. He was popular in Texas’ 19th Congressional District (basically Galveston), but couldn’t duplicate that on a national level. Despite the continued claim by his supporters, he was NOT cheated out of the Republican nomination. If he could not convince enough conservatives to choose him in the primaries, what chance would he have had against Obama’s machine? While I grant that he had SOME valid ideas, his OVERALL message had only limited appeal to any but a cult-like base composed primarily of bat-crap crazy “all-or-nothing” idealists.
  
  Report this comment
- sta
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 8:10am
  Ron Paul retired, He is a brilliant man but it was not his time,
  Let’s find someone who can take the ball and actually get things done,
  
  Report this comment
elosogrande
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:57am
Don’t ever forget that these are the people who electe4d this President. They have a need to repy on government and their unions to take care of them, because they are not capable of taking care of themselves.

These people are what America has become.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
The_Jerk
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:56am
The union takers are behaving just like the welfare takers are going to act, when the economy collapses and they stop getting their handouts.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- IKW
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:20pm
  Except the “welfare takers” will be burning down buildings instead of standing in front of them with signs and threatening rhetoric. The “union takers” understand that there must be someone to coerce, but the ignorant “welfare takers” will only understand their own primordial hunger and will be crushed by the very “master” they have selected to guard their well-being…the “useful idiots” will not outlive their uselessness and we will all be lucky to get through this alive.
  
  Prepare my friends.
  
  Report this comment
ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:55am
Gee, with the Economy moving rapidly “forward” and growing, you would think there wouldn’t be any issues. Everyone should be happy. Better call in the all knowing, all seeing, almighty CLOTUS to solve this dispute.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Mess23
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:50am
There was a time and place for unions, but that was hundred years ago. Now they just extort.

I opted out of my union and we are all fine here.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- IKW
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:54pm
  The government itself has replaced the independent unions of their usefulness. We have hundreds of laws and regulations in place to coerce fair treatment of employees and safe work environments…the unions only serve their leadership in power, money and influence, the “worker” himself is protected by the union infiltrated government….just another face of fascism.
  
  Report this comment
- IKW
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:30pm
  And congratulations on working hard and having a valued skill for which to serve yourself and your family, God bless! :-)
  
  Report this comment
lynnissmart
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:50am
What do you expect from thugs….??? Fire this guy….oh I forgot, this is the language of the left!!!! Vomit!

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
let us prey
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:49am
I thought the battle of the overpass saw Fords security forces beating the crap out of union workers. These fools want a repeat? I’ll pay a dollar to see that.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
AmericanStrega
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:49am
I’ve never worked for a union and I never will. My current employer employees 900+ people. None of us are slaves. If there is a problem or grievence we are fairly treated and the problem is fully investigated. I have only heard of one instance where the problem was not solvable by the company (an employee thought he was wrongly fired). The employee was caught damaging company property and tried to lie about it. He was rightfully fired. As I see it. Unions enslave people by making them pay union dues. The employee has not choice. No choice= Slavery.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- VanceUppercut
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:26pm
  Have you ever considered the fact that your situation may be unique, and that others may not be so lucky?
  
  “Workers in those (right to work) states enjoy lower wages, roughly 10 per cent lower, and of course far fewer protections against arbitrary treatment at the hands of managers striving for efficiency bonuses.”
  
  Report this comment
- Fubared
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:10pm
  Lance
  So you want that 10% to go to a 1%er? These people you refer to were born without a mouth or brain, and have no legs? You lie.
  
  Report this comment
- Mil-Dot
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:49pm
  Vance,
  I would rather take that 10% pay cut and take my chances that my skills and work ethic will keep me employed. I don’t need no damn “protection” from my employer. I get the job done. I don’t show up drunk, sabotage machinery, spit on managers, steal parts, start fights over stupid crap etc. etc. I will never work for a union again. I never saw a bigger group of crybabies and degenerates than I saw at that union job.
  
  Report this comment
- hatchetjob
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:51pm
  Right on MIL-DOT, you said it!!
  
  Report this comment
djmaine
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:48am
Sheeple

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Gary_K
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:48am
Ya just got to love the peaceful loony left. God bless their little heads.

State Representative Douglas Geiss should be removed from office for promoting violence.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Pollock
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:06pm
  So should our president for constantly stirring the hatred between groups of people just like he did in Cairo back in 09 when he said the US would always support a democratically elected leader in Egypt. You see what followed, he hasn’t stopped trying to pit American vs American since he was elected in 08. Our country is in deep trouble. When the first shot is fired, I will be thankful to live in the sticks.
  
  Report this comment
hauschild
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:47am
“There will be blood.”

Yeah, right. These worthless bastards don’t have enough drive in them to wash the slop off their faces for God’s sakes, yet they expect a person that has actually worked for a living to be frightened of them???

If the blood begins to spill, these worthless slugs will turn tail and run like scared dogs.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- hatchetjob
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:53pm
  Maybe the union thugs mean fake blood left over from Halloween.
  
  Report this comment
TheBurningTruth
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:46am
Ahhh, the violent left. Once the clubs and guns appear, President Marxist will lecture conservatives about being “civil”.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
Gregory_Adams
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:46am
1) No more forced union membership to hold a job, and 2) No more auto-deduction of union dues. If you choose to be a member of the union, they will need to setup a payment system like a web-based or pay-pal, or mail in. That is all this changes. And the union has their people ready to take up baseball bats to crack skulls.

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:17pm
  Union will have to compete to attrack members rather than forcing a political tax upon those who choose not to join. At the end of the day, unions know they cannot compete as bullying is all they have to offer. The failure to forcibly extract money from paychecks will make it difficult to buy as many politicians at the state and federal levels.
  
  Report this comment
Mike Austin
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:42am
Bring it on. They are the 1% now. Unions have sucked the blood from every industry and destroyed the balance and good they once had. I am looking forward to it.

Report this comment
Log in to Reply Reply
randy
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:42am
When will the first shot be fired?

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:04pm
  Good question?? When and Who WILL fire that first shot? I read on here all day long the land-locked-lubbers of The La Revolucionary Liberty and Freedom Movement calling for the first shot to be fired and get our country back to it’s revolucionary roots.
  
  They certainly aren’t going to do it because they’re cowards by ideology They talk the talk but aren’t willing to do any of the heavy lifting. Oh, they state they’ll finish the fight once the fight starts…. hmmmmmm… right. They’ll be right behind the one’s they egg on for the fight.
  
  So who then… and when??
  
  Report this comment
- Pollock
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:07pm
  It’s coming! But it won’t be from a Conservative.
  
  Report this comment
Bumpintheroad
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:41am
Buh bye unoins, don’t let the door…..well ya know!

Report this comment
Log in to ReplyReply
- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:49am
  No! Let’s get it right out there. Don’t let the door hit’cha where the Good Lord split”a in his Image.
  
  Good People ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. God Bless Bitter Clingers, damn progressives.
  
  Report this comment

It appears that you have Javascript Disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser preferences for a better user experience on TheBlaze. You can not comment without Javascript enabled.