Earlier this afternoon, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder announced that he signed the right-to-work legislation that was passed late last week by the Michigan State House and later the State Senate. Officially making one of the most union friendly states in the U.S.A. a right-to-work state.
“This isn’t about us versus them,” Gov. Snyder said in the news conference, “It’s about Michiganders.”
Snyder’s signing the right-to-work legislation officially makes Michigan the 24th right-to-work state in the whole United States of America.
The legislation has been clarified over the few days it has been discussed, and it has been clarified that the first House bill ban workplace rules that make union membership a condition of employment for government workers. The second House bill covered the same thing except it covers private-sector employees. The bills also make payment of union dues voluntary. In simple terms, the bills offer Michigan citizens the choice of joining a union, or not joining a union. The bills do not deal with collective bargaining as they did in Wisconsin.
In the news conference, Gov. Snyder sad that, “It’s a good thing,” and, “I think it’s pro-worker.”
Even the fight from keeping the legislation from becoming law has failed, the unions are still heavily present in the state capitol of Lansing. When the vote itself was taking place, thousands of union workers flooded the city. s a result of the union influx, schools in three districts had to shut down because so many of their teachers and other staff were at the protest in Lansing.
One thing the that Michigan police made sure of was that there state capitol did not end up looking Wisconsin’s did. In Wisconsin union protesters occupied the capitol around the clock for almost three weeks.
I commend the police officers and also the legislators for being prepared, and avoiding a Wisconsin mess. They new that they had the majorities needed and they got the job done in good time. Keeping the unions from pulling together and creating a mess. Also they did not have a problem with state representatives jumping the state line to try and withhold a vote.
The American Tea Man 