MI: Unions, workers waiting for vote on Right to Work repeal

[RandySF]

(WXYZ) — After more than a decade, Right to Work laws in Michigan may soon be no more after a House committee voted this morning to recommend its repeal. A vote is expected on the House floor later this evening.

“Today I think I'm just feeling excited and proud that our politicians have stood up,” said Jamie Shaw with the IBEW Local 17.

Shaw with IBEW Local 17 says the Right to Work law was devastating. He was in Lansing at the Capitol back in 2012 protesting the legislation when it originally passed. The law made it so workers in unionized workplaces could not be forced to pay union dues.

“Right now, currently someone could come in and say 'I don't want to be a member, I don't want to pay dues anymore,' but they still get all of the benefits that were collectively bargained by the group under that contract,” Shaw said. “There's not any other organization out there that you wouldn't have to pay some type of fee or something to collect those benefits.”



https://www.wxyz.com/news/political/unions-workers-waiting-for-vote-on-right-to-work-repeal

[Meadowoak]

1. Fuck you Rick Snyder, you rotten little prick that gave MI

Right to work for less.

[Act_of_Reparation]

2. That's not fair.

He also gave a city of 80,000 people lead poisoning.

[Hiawatha Pete]

3. +1000 n/t

[llmart]

7. I second that emotion!

One tough nerd, my royal behind. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing and I saw that during his campaign. I worked with a lifelong, liveral Democrat who voted for him. I couldn't believe he was so gullible to fall for Snyder's schtick. He was a highly educated man too.

I also worked with a woman who quit the union after this law was enacted. Pissed me off royally that she had enjoyed all the bennies the union fought for.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I wish someone would write a book, 50 boneheaded Republican laws that had to be overturned.

Starting with Reagan's cutting of funds for mental health. His anti-air traffic controllers move hasn't aged well, either. Recently, Trump's anti-train brake regulation was found to be a mistake. And now we have the Right to work legislation which was yet, another boneheaded law.

[Meadowoak]

5. Why stop at 50?

[Baitball Blogger]

8. If it's researched and indexed, they probably can turn it into a series, and sell it like

an encyclopedia.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. Glad to see this and I hope it passes, but I live in a Right-To-Work state and work in a Union Shop

and a significant number of my co-workers are not members of the union.

It is just as Mr. Shaw states;

“Right now, currently someone could come in and say 'I don't want to be a member, I don't want to pay dues anymore,' but they still get all of the benefits that were collectively bargained by the group under that contract,”

Right-To-Work means right to shoot yourself in the foot. The Taft Hartley Act (1947) is what started the ball rolling for these RTW laws.

Repeal the Taft Hartley act and let workers have a say once again.