Unions still signing up new members, despite Michigan's 2012 Right To Work legislation
LANSING, MI –Sparrow Home Health nurses voted this week to unionize, marking the first group the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) has registered since Gov. Rick Snyder signed Right to Work legislation in 2012.
“What we’re seeing is that Right to Work or not, nurses and others recognize that forming a union is the most effective way that they can have a voice in the workplace,” said Michigan Nurses Association spokesperson Dawn Kettinger.
Ed McNeil, special assistant to the president of the American Federation of State County Municipal Employees (AFSCME) rattled off four new groups he’d helped form unions this year, though he says he’d have to dig through some files to find the total number they’ve done since 2012.
“They’re calling us to organize them because they’re looking at the type of work that we’ve done in the past and how we represent people,” McNeil said.
He estimates that the actual number of AFSCME members in the state is staying about the same, since some individuals are dropping out. As far as new organizing goes, “We’re doing more than we did before 2012,” McNeil said.
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