Ashley Woods
02/08/2014
DETROIT -- The Michigan Legislature's hasty passage (click here) of a right-to-work law in December 2012 was likely the most polarizing week of Gov. Rick Snyder's (R) tenure. Given the choice, he said he'd do it again.
"Absolutely," he told The Huffington Post during an interview Friday when asked whether Michigan was better off with the new legislation.
In December 2012, the Republican-controlled House and Senate approved legislation making it unlawful to require employees to pay union dues as a condition of employment. The lightning-fast passage during a lame-duck session shocked national observers. The GOP governor, elected in 2010, previously had indicated that passing right-to-work legislation wasn't on his agenda, but in December he said he would sign any right-to-work bills that made their way to his desk....
Right to Work erodes the rights of the Middle Class. This is the day of the Super Rich and now due to politicians such as Snyder, the added corruption stuffs their pockets all the more.
Americans can't give up their rights. They also need a pay raise.
March 25, 2013
Jayne Bower
DETROIT (WWJ) - Geraldine Blankinship, (click here) now 93, was 17 years old when her father and hundreds of others at the General Motors Fisher One Plant decided they had had enough.
“Well, I remember my dad coming home from work so tired that he couldn’t eat,” said Blankinship. “They would work them sometimes overtime for no pay.”
“My dad called home on the thirtieth of December and said to my mother, ‘Ida we’re on strike. It’s a sitdown and I’ll be home when it’s over.’”
It wasn’t over until February 11, 1937....
02/08/2014
DETROIT -- The Michigan Legislature's hasty passage (click here) of a right-to-work law in December 2012 was likely the most polarizing week of Gov. Rick Snyder's (R) tenure. Given the choice, he said he'd do it again.
"Absolutely," he told The Huffington Post during an interview Friday when asked whether Michigan was better off with the new legislation.
In December 2012, the Republican-controlled House and Senate approved legislation making it unlawful to require employees to pay union dues as a condition of employment. The lightning-fast passage during a lame-duck session shocked national observers. The GOP governor, elected in 2010, previously had indicated that passing right-to-work legislation wasn't on his agenda, but in December he said he would sign any right-to-work bills that made their way to his desk....
Right to Work erodes the rights of the Middle Class. This is the day of the Super Rich and now due to politicians such as Snyder, the added corruption stuffs their pockets all the more.
Americans can't give up their rights. They also need a pay raise.
Jayne Bower
DETROIT (WWJ) - Geraldine Blankinship, (click here) now 93, was 17 years old when her father and hundreds of others at the General Motors Fisher One Plant decided they had had enough.
“Well, I remember my dad coming home from work so tired that he couldn’t eat,” said Blankinship. “They would work them sometimes overtime for no pay.”
“My dad called home on the thirtieth of December and said to my mother, ‘Ida we’re on strike. It’s a sitdown and I’ll be home when it’s over.’”
It wasn’t over until February 11, 1937....
