Labor activists can learn from the decades-long campaign to undermine their influence by focusing on state-level action to bolster their cause Jennifer Standish is a doctoral candidate in the ...
In a win for unions, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed Democratic legislation repealing the state's right-to-work law. The move makes Michigan the first state in decades to repeal the ...
On Friday, Michigan became the first state in decades to repeal a right-to-work law that allowed workers to opt out of paying union dues and fees. The change goes into effect 90 days after the ...
Along with repealing the right-to-work law, Michigan has also reinstated prevailing wage. The law requires union-level pay and benefits for any publicly-funded state construction projects.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers recently made their opinion on so-called “right-to-work” laws abundantly clear, and in the process praised the state of Michigan, for being the ...
Regardless, a decade after it became law, right-to-work in Michigan appears to be at death ... Both unions and pro-repeal policymakers are acutely aware of that. “Let’s restore fairness ...
Paycheck Protection laws stipulate government resources can't be used to deduct union dues from worker paychecks. Four states ...
Some Democrats want Whitmer to repeal Michigan's emergency manager law, but she said there needs to be something to replace ...
Matt Wehrmeister was working at a Starbucks in East Lansing in March when he learned about Michigan Democrats' successful repeal of the state's right-to-work law. Wehrmeister is a barista at the ...
Rick Snyder and one of his top political allies, Kalamazoo-area business leader and philanthropist Bill Parfet, will help ...
Lansing — The Democrat-controlled Michigan Senate voted Wednesday to repeal a policy ... repealing Snyder-era laws, including the Republican-authored right-to-work and prevailing wage laws.
Michigan has become the first state in 58 years to repeal a "right-to-work" law. The law, passed more than decade ago by a Republican-controlled Legislature, had allowed those in unionized ...
