Michigan's GOP-dominated statehouse voted Thursday in lame-duck session in favor of right-to-work laws that critics say would limit workers'
The Senate passed two bills, one affecting private workers and the other public workers. The
After Senate Bill 116 passed by a vote of 22-16, the chamber's 12 Democrats decided not to participate further and left the building; the remaining senators then passed House Bill 4003 by 22-4, McCann said.
Under the bills, the right to strike and picket would be limited; membership and paying dues into the union could not be a condition of employment.
Sen. John Gleason, (D), said the laws were referendum-proof - voters could not overturn them - because they were put in a million-dollar appropriations bill.
Voters with courage could overturn them. Complainers say they are bullet-proof.
He accused the Republicans of having rushed it through "so that the public has no opportunity to look at it or debate the issue."Took a lesson from the Obama playbook, did they?