Brian Dickerson: Why labor's children rejected Proposal 2

...But the truth is that most of us who grew up in labor households haven't forgotten our roots. And most of us weren't taken in by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce's scare tactics, any more than we believed that Manuel (Matty) Moroun was fighting for all of us.

We share organized labor's anger at Republicans who want to make unions the scapegoats for decades of municipal mismanagement. But we also understood that, at the end of the day, Proposal 2 was designed to erect a firewall not just against labor's opponents, but against the democratic process itself.

And we reasoned that, in an era when the pie is shrinking for most Michiganders, the notion that anyone's share should be protected by constitutional armor was simply unfair to everyone else...

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