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As Michigans new, controversial right-to-work law goes into effect in the state today, Gov. Rick Snyder said he doesnt view the law as anti-union, but rather as pro-worker.
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Several dozen people outside the Detroit Athletic Club felt differently. They were joined by a larger-than-life papier-mache head of Snyder with a theme of Let them eat pancakes.
David Hecker, president of the American Federation of Teachers in Michigan, said the start of the new law represented a terrible day for Michigan.
"Right-to-work is temporary. Solidarity is forever," he said in predicting the law will end soon, either through a legal challenge or after the next election in 2014.
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KansDem
(28,498 posts)I think the labor movement has done a lot of great things in their history, but has their role evolved enough to recognize our new role today? Snyder said during a speech at the Pancakes and Politics forum sponsored by the Michigan Chronicle.
I think it will bring jobs to Michigan.
Working for shit wages is "pro-worker?"
patrice
(47,992 posts)not to mention the usual more overt discriminations like ethnicity, sex, and age; all can affect employment.
The Equal Employment Opportunity bureaucracy only deals with a very small fraction of what goes on and the NLRB is too high up to validate the most important "little" details that really do matter day-to-day, to help steer things in either a bad direction or something that is better for everyone. The RTW result is always way more expensive because it's also always way after-the-fact.
Under Right to Work there is NO objective OVERSIGHT in the work-place that is responsible for the most direct and effective responses to various kinds of discrimination.
You'd think that employers would be more interested in keeping government out of the work-place as much as possible by dealing with the problems associated with discrimination amongst those most affected by it, employees, who ORGANIZE to do the best things for their jobs and, therefore, for their employers AND for themselves.