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It’s Official: Mich. Right-To-Work Bill Becomes Law

Dec. 11, 2012 6:06pm Becket Adams

“I have signed the freedom to work bills into law.” – Gov Rick Snyder

— Rick Snyder (@onetoughnerd) December 11, 2012

As the chants of angry protesters filled the Capitol, Michigan lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to right-to-work legislation, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized labor in a state that has been a cradle of the movement for generations.

The Republican-dominated House approved two bills with the same efficiency that the Senate showed last week. One measure dealt with private sector workers, the other with government employees. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed them both within hours.

Mich. Gov. Rick Snyder Signs Right to Work Bill | Michigan Becomes 24th Right to Work State in the U.S.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. (Office of the Governor of MI)

“This is about freedom, fairness and equality,” House Speaker Jase Bolger said during floor debate. “These are basic American rights – rights that should unite us.”

After the vote, he said, Michigan’s future “has never been brighter, because workers are free.”

Once the laws are enacted, the state where the United Auto Workers was founded and labor has long been a political titan will join 23 others with right-to-work laws, which prohibit unions from collecting fees from nonunion workers.

Supporters say the laws give workers more choice and support economic growth, but critics insist the real intent is to weaken organized labor by encouraging workers to “freeload” by withholding money unions need to bargain effectively.

Protesters in the gallery chanted “Shame on you!” as the measures were adopted. Union backers clogged the hallways and grounds shouting “No justice, no peace,” and Democrats warned that there would be repercussions the bill’s passage.

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin and other Democrats in the state’s congressional delegation met with Snyder on Monday and urged him back off pursuing right-to-work.

“For millions of Michigan workers, this is no ordinary debate,” Sen. Levin said. “It’s an assault on their right to have their elected bargaining agent negotiate their pay, benefits and working conditions, and to have all who benefit from such negotiations share in some way in the cost of obtaining them.”

Map of right-to-work states (RTW in red)

Although loud, rowdy, and sometimes violent, the crowds were considerably smaller than those drawn by right-to-work legislation in Indiana earlier this year and in Wisconsin in 2011, during consideration of a law reforming so-called “collective bargaining rights” for most state employees.

Those measures provoked weeks of intense debate, with Democrats boycotting sessions to delay action and tens of thousands of activists occupying statehouses.

In Michigan, Republicans acted so quickly that opponents had little time to plan massive resistance.

Gov. Snyder and GOP leaders announced their intentions last Thursday. Within hours, the bills were pushed through the Senate as powerless Democrats objected. After a legally required five-day waiting period, the House approved final passage.

“This was a problem that needed to be solved,” the governor said. He expects the law to be challenged in court but believes it will stand.

(Getty Images)

Protesters began assembling before daylight outside the sandstone-and-brick Capitol, chanting and whistling in the chilly darkness and waving placards with slogans such as “Stop the War on Workers.” Others joined a three-block march to the building, some wearing coveralls and hard hats.

The crowds filled the rotunda area, beating drums and chanting. The chorus rose to a deafening thunder as House members voted. Later, protesters surged toward a building across the street housing Snyder’s office. Two people were arrested when they tried to get inside, state police said.

But by late afternoon, the demonstrators had mostly dispersed.

Gov. Snyder insisted the matter wasn’t handled with undue haste, calling the debate in the House and Senate a “healthy discussion.”

A failed ballot proposal to enshrine collective bargaining rights in the Michigan Constitution triggered the discussion that led to passage of right-to-work, the governor said.

(AP)

Michigan gives the right-to-work movement its strongest foothold yet in the Rust Belt, where the 2010 election and Tea Party movement produced assertive Republican majorities that have dealt unions repeated setbacks.

Lawmakers who backed the bills “will be held accountable at the ballot box in 2014,” said state Rep. Tim Greimel, the incoming House Democratic leader.

But Sen. John Proos, a Republican from St. Joseph who voted for both bills, predicted that objections would fade as the shift in policy brings more jobs to Michigan.

“As they say in sports,” he said, “the atmosphere in the locker room gets a lot better when the team’s winning.”

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The Associated Press contributed to this report. Featured image courtesy Dearborn Free Press & Bob Brodbeck.

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Comments (128)

jackwall
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:09pm
it’s about time that michigan got the right to work law passed !! THANKS, U S ARMY VET. & TEAMSTER ( RETIRED )

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- Anamah
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 9:29pm
  Well done Michigan!!! Is time to end the thugs, mobs and mafia organizations…That people should became honest … it seems we have enough. America was the free world in the past we must recover our prosperity based on free market and liberty. Go learn our Constitution guys!!!
  
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- HappyConservative
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 9:51pm
  Awesome!!! One big fat middle finger to obama and his union thugs!!! It’s a little too late in the big picture but maybe in 2 or 4 years it can make a difference. I’m happy for Michigan!! Grats to ya’ll from Texas!!!!
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:52pm
  Thank You, Gov Rick Snyder !!
  THANK YOU, THANK YOU !!!!
  OOOORAH !!
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:06am
  I’m hoping this is all obumbles gets for the next four Years.
  Up yours Bud !!! this POS is bought and paid for by unions.
  Totaly Disgusting for a President.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:06am
  This is a huge win! for india and china…
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:31am
  Since the 1940s, twenty three states (and Guam) have enacted Right to Work laws. They are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.
  WELCOME MICHIGAN !!! THANK YOU Gov, Rick Snyder..
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:44am
  MIBUGNU… do you have the statistics on how many former union factory jobs have been outsourced since 1980 as a result? More than you can count!
  
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- mauijonny
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:31am
  I just can’t believe we even have to vote on things like “right to work” and people have a problem with that :/
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:02am
  Unions are about the communist movement ! The few control the many
  They want to control more and more but the control is at the top not you !
  They want the only “rights” – control, money
  No secret vote – control, money
  Must join a union – control, money
  How about the theft of money to in home care takers
  
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- Bum thrower
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:49am
  Excellent!! Everyone will benefit. The public employee unions are raping the tax payer with the help of the Democrat – Socialist-Leftists….they must be stopped and their power taken away;
  
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- PCDoctors4u2
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:03pm
  A personal observation about Enlisted Military, Public service, and Union Employees… My Grand Father (Mom’s Dad) was Vice President of the Teamsters in Chicago in 1964 right hand man for Jimmie Hoffa ,My Dad’s Dad was a US Army Prisoner of War at the Battle of the Bulge. My Dad was a Career Navy Corps, My Mom was a career Civil Servant. They used to say that the Military was the Profession of last resort… I only list these qualifications to validate what I will say next. All of these groups have many similarities but the ones that stand out in my memory… First, they are all in it for the benefits, Pension, Health Care, Job security, Consistent pay. Second, they are all clock watchers and calendar scratchers, only 6 years, 7 months, 18 days to retirement so I can own that boat on a lake and drink beer until they pull that last can from my cold hand. Third, they keep their heads down they follow orders and they never think for themselves much less offer an opinion that could be perceived as contrary to the team. Forth and most importantly, if they are not in a management role, they could care less about their employer, their customer, or their product because their consistent minimum effort will ensure their continually growing piece of PIE! I will say that some of these mere mortals have shown tremendous tolerance and sacrifice to obtain their eventual goal, Retirement. I have more respect for that homeless guy who has been self-reliant than The 53% who voted for Com
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:52pm
  Essentially this is a huge win for the China economy. You bunch of commies! Essentially this is what happens. when right to work gets passed the Union loses its leverage over the company. in many ways making the union contract void. Meaning that companies to have to follow the work and pay standards set by the union. leaving them open to ship jobs overseas for much cheaper. Right to work states are just nails in the coffin of American manufacturing. Well done Patriots!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:13pm
  Oh, so sorry Keaton, South Dakota and many other Right to Work states stand in stark contrast to your claim of shipping jobs to China.
  
  Try harder next time.
  
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TJexcite
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:06pm
Lets hope the have a clause for no Card Check and a clause that prevents the employer from telling the union rep who pays and who does not. After the fun today would you want to work at a union shop and not pay dues with every other person there knows it and the union does as well. What you save on dues will be spent on tire that are slashed daily.

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- brigott
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:38pm
  I doubt very many of the other workers at the shop would continue to pay their dues either. They would probably ALL be taking home more of their paycheck instead of “donating” it to the union.
  
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- Conservative2
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:12am
  With the high cost of Energy and Groceries here I’m sure most would want those Union dues back in their wallets. Just like the Gasoline prices, when they go high so do our Food prices, interesting tho the food prices never seem to go back down even when the gasoline does!
  
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Mr Sanders
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:04pm
Good for Michigan! Worked for Wisconsin….. any other takers to create more freedom for their states residents?

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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:45am
  These jobs will be in india or china by tomorrow
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:16am
  keaton seems to have the IQ of a brick. Typical incompetent union member hiding behind the union and not capable of providing for him/her/its self.
  
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- DeathRattle
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:42am
  Keaton is a leftist pablum spewer, saying he has the IQ of a brick is insulting though……. to bricks.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:48pm
  It isn’t that hard to figure out. I love how both of your comments are void of a rebuttal. But essentially right to work strips unions of their leverage over companies, making a union contract, and the standards for work and pay, void. The corporation will then have to choose between paying these people, or shipping the jobs to china for pennies on the dollar. so goes right to work, so goes the death of American manufacturing.
  
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denkat56
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:56pm
The unions were good for the work force in the 1950 s and 60s, but they got to big and powerful. They went past the workforce and got involved with politics and their presence became to overshadow all else. Time is the real test, whether they’ll ever be needed again.

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dbrockjohnson
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:47pm
I can’t WAIT for the civil war!!!! I’ll bet I’m more pissed than those fat thugs.

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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:52am
  wow…. I think you need help. who in their right mind would want another civil war?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:38am
  Lil Keatie
  Lots, gazillions, trillions, of peeps get tired of being stolen from. Over, and over, and over again. Taking from one to support another has legal and biblical meaning: theft. It gets old. You want a phone, food, lodging, internet and a free ride all your life? You like art, you pay for it. You have chillren, you pay for their schooling and PBS. You have aids, stds, and rectal warts, you pay for it. It gets really tiresome paying for the mistakes of others. Where are your A123 dividends? Uncle can’t run the postal system or Amtrak and you think them betting on green energy companies is kosher-you pay for it then. They/Fed have proven they couldn’t run a cat house and you want gubmint healthcare. You are a young, ignorant, meaningless douche. And your insipid smarmy remarks also get old. You really resemble a 13 year old girl stuck in the burbs mimicking your latest NEA union toad of a teacher.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 10:59am
  Lil Keatie
  Perhaps you should listen to Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.’s latest remarks on civil war. For having a choice too. You have some fine, stellar heroes there, hero.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 11:00am
  Lil Keatie
  here, as you have proven by your lazy remarks, you can do little for yourself:
  
  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-11/michigan-governor-signs-right-work-law-jimmy-hoffa-warns-civil-war
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:55pm
  FUBARED… so you support a civil war because of taxes? even though this process has been going on since america was founded, and your taxes have not gone up since bush became president. and most likely wont as long as Obama is president, unless you make over 250,000 a year. thats your reasoning for an internal war? you are an idiot!
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 2:57pm
  and in hoffas case it is clearly a metaphor. and he isn’t saying “I can’t WAIT for the civil war!!!!” like the genius who posted above us
  
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Beachmastermax
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:34pm
A great day for freedom and choice.

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- dlechkun
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:22pm
  Ditto!
  
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- hatchetjob
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 9:19pm
  You said it! It’s a happy day!!
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:45am
  and a wonderful day for outsourcing! God Bless America!
  
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ellietoo
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:33pm
Cannot even imagine why a law would have to be passed so that people could work without having to pay a union to do so.

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jmeister8
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:21pm
The best part about this is not the revival of freedom, nor the first small steps for man in that lunar landscape called detroit, nor increased salary workers can now bring home because they dont have to pay the commrad bosses in der unions. No no the best part of this is watching the liberals get weely weely mad!!

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:30pm
  Jmeister
  I second that but still very much like the freedom part of it as well.
  It’s a good night everyone should enjoy it but it’s just 1 battle of many to come.
  
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sizzler2220
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:10pm
Obama needs civil unrest, class wars, and violence so he can make the final swoop.

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jmeister8
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:06pm
One state down and 57 more to go or was that 58? lets ask Obama

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karen162
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:59pm
Let’s see, this law does nothing but make joining a Union and paying Union Dues, “Voluntary”. Why do the Unions hate this so much? Because workers generally don’t agree with the Unions and those dues will, “voluntarily” go away. Yet, they are the ones on the side of choice? Its a Progressive (read: Upside down and backwards) world we live in.

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- cdawg516
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:40pm
  I totally agree. I’ve caught myself asking “If unions are so great, what are they afraid of?” with a smug look on my face.
  
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- Cronpolis
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:10pm
  Yeah that is the greatest defense to this law. They really can’t argue the fact that it is not FORCED on the employee to join the union. Nobody is saying that they can’t have Unions, but they are saying it should be voluntary to join one.
  What needs to happen next is that MAYBE the Unions will actually have to do some GOOD work for the employees to where they can SHOW the employees how a Union is supposed to work. Most Union employees have no clue on what the Union is doing with their money or they don’t agree with what the Union is actually doing with their money. Unions need to change for the times that we are in and they are trying the old route of getting “their Politician” in office and getting their way. I hope they have learned something from this and hope that they start doing good work for the employees instead of the politicians.
  
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dublinthewagons
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:58pm
The American communist party aka community organizer group looses. Now we will see the thugs really get violent. After all “THE MAN” is their man. Adolph Obama

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:13pm
  Adolf! I said ADOLF!!! Pay attention to me!
  
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encinom
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:57pm
Snyder just signed his pink slip. The Patriots in Michigan need 8% of the voter turnout to sign a petition and recall this piece of right s stripping BS.

And the tea ****** serfs dance for their master’s pleasure.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:01pm
  He may not get reelected not for that but for not being Republican enough.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:05pm
  Monicene you are so eat up with it that a choice is a bad thing. hahahahahaha. Eat it. Stew on it some more, join some of those corpulant underworked toads and stroke out. Hahahahahahaha. “Right to work” is a bad thing? That is sad, but you are very sad.
  
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- tommyb89
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:41pm
  Living in Michigan and being a union member. I don’t see his re election being a problem. What was seen at the capital today was a small minority of the people here in Michigan. I am all for people’s right to protest peaceably but, as I was downtown today, this was anything but a peaceable protest. To me it made me embarrassed to be a union member. I support the right to work as do the majority of union members here in Michigan. But, when I am given the choice which I will happily receive I will then remain a Union member. Just happy to have the choice. Now for my teenage daughters making minimum wage and paying union dues they will happily leave their unions.
  
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- TheGrtDcptn
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:33pm
  ’8% of the voter turnout to sign a petition and recall’…
  
  You mean like the ‘Governor Scott Walker’ recall…?!
  
  Bwahahahahahahaha…
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:20am
  Encinodumb: Why don’t you go back to the Huff & Puff they are short an idiot.
  
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hannah
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:53pm
I’m really happy for them, now more people can go to work without the UNION breathing down their necks.

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toomuchgovt
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:50pm
Michigan is set to Nullify NDAA, So I have hope for Michigan. I still think this fight for our Constitution will come from the East. We are the ones that have felt the strangle hold of socialism and yes communism. Until you have lived in a city or town that you are nudged and nudged and freedom after freedom is taken you have no idea how desperate this situation is. This is the eastern “united” states. If we are ever to survive, it is by the 10th amendment. Pray for Michigan, they need it now.

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shagstar
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:45pm
i hope he has an outstanding security detail with all those rapid drones outside.

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- Fubared
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:18pm
  Rabid surely, not rapid since they put on the last 50 pounds or so….fat bastids. And yes I make typos all the time-just messing with you-
  
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decendentof56
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:44pm
“During a news conference, he called the protests “an exercise in democracy.”

That would be correct! What you see in Michigan is democracy = mob rule.
Only, this time…they lost the war. Good for Mi taxpayers.

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- encinom
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:59pm
  Not quiet, The Goc. just signed his pink slip. I hope the Koch Brotehrs have a good job lined up for this lackey, he’ll need on in 2014. This law will be repealed as it was in Ohio.
  
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- outoftheway
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:12pm
  Encinom, get your facts straight. Senate Bill 5 in Ohio was different. I know, all of it is an attack on the left’s precious unions. Already getting tired of the union talking points, and tired of unions too.
  
  If unions are so great and do so much for workers then it shouldn’t be too difficult to convince workers in right-to-work states to join. Unions know most employees won’t join and that scares the hell out of them. Also, if unions do such a good job then why don’t we see signs at all businesses who employ union members extolling that? I think unions would be proud to point out this fact. I’ll be more than happy to take my business to non-union shops.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:22pm
  Encinomom
  You clearly should be paying more in dues. Cough it up rat. Scab. POS not paying tribute, pay your fair share rat. Aahahahahaha.
  
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- TulsaYeeHaw
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 9:24pm
  Encinom: YOU LOST!!!!!!
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 9:25am
  Poor Encinodumb, doesn’t have enough smarts to use spell check, but expects a fat pay check thanks to his/her/its union affiliation.
  
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broper
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:39pm
Freedom is the ability to chose a way of life, a job, a home town, your school, your faith, your friends based on your own desires and abilities. Our freedoms have been faithfully bought and paid for by countless patriots in uniforms, and supported by school teachers, communities, and neighbors. When did my right to not join a union become an “economic” issue President Obama? . It is a socialistic view at best, and communistic view at worse. Unions are filled with thugs who would beat you down and force you to pay dues, and to vote in public, and support causes you in which you might not agree. Unions have become filled with greedy, anti-liberty leftists who are afraid to compete in a free market for fear their skills and work ethic, without the support of others who do the minimum work for the maximum dollars, might not measure up to the guy who is hungry to do a great job for a fair wage. I was in New York City at a convention a few years ago and wanted to plug in a display lamp in a large auditorium filled with vendors. I was stopped by a union electrician who took the cord from my hand, and told me that I wasn’t allowed to do that, and he plugged it into a floor outlet, and I was billed $38. Unions suck.

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:49pm
  Nice post Broper
  
  I have delt with union at trade shows with similar results.
  You are correct. What is more American than the right to choose.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:00pm
  Not free loading on thework of others. That is what this bill does.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 9:17pm
  Cry encinomom, get monicene over here to do some real crying, you cry like a lazy union toad; half assed and poorly done all around.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:35pm
Okay, Right-to-work has won this round and hopefully will remain the law of the land.

Most likely the Unions and the Democrats will rant, rave and possibly riot to intimidate the legislature and seek to coerce a vote on the Michigan ballot the next time they come around. In addition, I do see them trying to make an issue of it before the courts, not likely to succeed true, yet I do not put it past them.

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nesmond
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:32pm
The judges will overturn it. Barack will see to that.

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DEFCON4
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:24pm
President Obama is not going to like this. heh.heh.heh…..

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:36pm
  No he is not happy, and I see him trying to use this for political gain, probably to blame the Republicans of “they protect the 2%, and care nothing for real workers.”
  
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- decendentof56
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:48pm
  Now….don’t dis those taxes payed by the 2%er’s, as you call them.
  They do support the US budget for 8-10 days.
  If we raise their taxes, we could run the gov for maybe 14 days.
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:21pm
What a great accomplishment. Everyone should have the right to work and not pay dues if they do not want them to go to something (like an election)they are against.. Union heads are just like employers and make a lot of money that they seem to hate for employers to have. Freedom for all God Bless America. Merry Christmas to all.

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- MDECKER
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:41pm
  Another Pro-choice victory!
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:47pm
  Maybe now a Michigan resident can finally have a choice of a phone company seeing how one company starts with a A and ends in a T has monopolized the market.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:14pm
  How is destroying hte rights and protections of working Americans great? Tea Baggers are a threat to honest Americans.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:44pm
  Encinomom
  Are you sure that your’e allowed to cry without the shop steward’s permission? Don’t you need to pay more in dues to have someone cry for you?
  
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- TheGrtDcptn
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 11:42pm
  ‘Tea Baggers are a threat to honest Americans’…
  
  Well…that leaves you out, encidolt…there isn’t an honest bone in your body…
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:48am
  OORAH, Gov. Rick Snyder..THANK YOU !!!
  One Small Step, but others will follow THANKS !!!
  Get these freeloading leeches outa’ here..
  
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Independent_Bill
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:18pm
I don’t get these union supporters. They just got the freedom to work anywhere without paying a union and they’re angry about it? How many factories and neighorhoods in Detroit have to be turned into farmland before these people get that they’re on the wrong side of the argument.

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- TiredAmerican7
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:22pm
  The folks you are seeing are control freaks. There are signs referring to “our wealth.”
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:58pm
  You see being a member of a union helps with a lot of things, health care, strike payment, vacations, overtime pay, etc etc. and depleting that is not good for many workers.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 8:20pm
  Lil Keatie-
  what is justin beaver up to right now and why are you up so late?
  
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- blackbean
  Posted on December 12, 2012 at 12:56pm
  You can’t fix stupid.
  
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TiredAmerican7
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:17pm
I am a conservative union member and I support RTW. I am very glad it passed, but I am pondering a few things:
A. I recall hearing a UAW rep state 5 weeks ago that she didn’t mind being taxed a little more so that everyone could have access to healthcare. Why can’t people in this mind pay more in union dues so that they don’t have to force other to pay so the unions don’t “lose their power”?
B. Union thugs are complaining about how quickly the RTW legislation is moving through. Where was the outrage about Pelosi, Obama, and Red pushed through Obamacare w/o Americans knowing exactly what was in it?
C. Union thugs are threatening that Synder will not be re-elected. Was Synder elected because of them in the first place? Would they vote for him if he vetoed this bill? I don’t think so.

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- M13
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:24pm
  I have been a U.A.W. member since 1978 and I think you are correct Tired. The union leaders could care less about rank and file members, they only care about the dues they collect.
  
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- tommyb89
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:38pm
  I am a union member here in Lansing IBEW 352 and I could not agree more.
  
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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:51pm
  They wish they could have Granholmn back she was after all the Democrat’s top dog.
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:58pm
  Tommy
  
  Thank you!!
  Some of us like myself hate unions but we relize that alot of you guys are strong armed into the unions. Have a great night bro.
  
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- TiredAmerican7
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:11pm
  Hey, our only defense has been “Beck’s Law” where we could stop a % of our dues from being applied to political activities. I’ve seen that number reach a little over 27%. I really pray that RTW does not get overturned by some activist judge.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:16pm
Good for them !

But I’m still not moving there.

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- SCREW-WINDOWS
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 6:55pm
  It now gives notice to the leeches they have a right to work now and no excuse for leeching the system.
  
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