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Michigan Democrats vote to repeal anti-union law, this week in the war on workers [1]
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Date: 2023-03-18
This is big: During the 2012 lame-duck session, Michigan Republicans passed a so-called right-to-work (RTW) law that then-Gov. Rick Snyder had explicitly said wasn't on his agenda. Since that law went into effect, union density in Michigan has dropped from 16.5% to 13.3%. But last November, Democrats won control of both chambers of the state legislature for the first time in decades, and Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was reelected. Repealing the anti-union law, which allows workers to freeload on their fellow workers, opting out of paying the costs of their union representation while getting the same benefits as people paying union dues—the improved contracts that are bargained, the support in case of grievances—became a possibility with that election.
And now it’s becoming a reality. Both the state House and Senate have voted to repeal RTW, and Whitmer has pledged to sign the bill into law. This is the first time a state has repealed a RTW law in nearly 60 years, according to Elise Gould and Jennifer Sherer of the Economic Policy Institute. Yet it’s also part of a trend. In 2022, Illinois voters passed a constitutional amendment banning such laws in the state, and in 2018, Missouri voters said no to an attempt by their state legislature to pass RTW.
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