{"id":33027,"date":"2012-12-12T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=33027"},"modified":"2012-12-12T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:39:13","slug":"gov-snyder-signs-right-to-work-bills-into-law-despite-widespread-popular-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/12\/12\/gov-snyder-signs-right-to-work-bills-into-law-despite-widespread-popular-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Snyder Signs &#8220;Right-to-Work&#8221; Bills Into Law Despite Widespread Popular Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest121212\/2012_12_12_terkel.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest121212\/2012_12_12_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/michigan.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Michigan governor Rick Snyder yesterday evening signed a pair of bills into law making union dues voluntary for all private sector and most public sector unions. The laws, being referred to as &#8220;right-to-work&#8221; bills, are seen by unions and their members as severely undermining the power of unions. Republicans, who led the effort, and Governor Snyder himself, claim the legislation is &#8220;pro-worker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 12,000 workers protested yesterday on the city streets of Lansing, Michigan amidst snow flurries and chants of \u201cKill the bill,\u201d as the Republican-majority state House gave final approval on the bills. The state Senate had already passed them earlier. <\/p>\n<p>Snyder promoted the bill by pointing to the large number of businesses relocating to Indiana after similar laws passed there in February. However, the Economic Policy Institute finds that, \u201cneither the Governor nor Indiana officials have been able to provide evidence that right to work was the determinative factor in even a single company\u2019s decision to locate in the state.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s vote was rushed in on the coat-tails of the November elections, with Republicans frightened at the prospect of a newly elected legislature taking their seats in January, which could prevent the GOP majority from having the necessary votes to pass the bill. The bill is designed to resist any repeal by popular referendum. However some reports suggest that it will still be possible to put the issue to a vote in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Michigan becomes the 24th state to have such a law in place. But it is also the state with one of the highest rates of unionization in the country, being home to the highly unionized auto industry.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Amanda Terkel, Senior Political Reporter and Politics Managing Editor at The Huffington Post <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/amanda-terkel\/\">Click here<\/a> to read Amanda Terkel&#8217;s writings on the Huffington Post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan governor Rick Snyder yesterday evening signed a pair of bills into law making union dues voluntary for all private sector and most public sector unions. The laws, being referred to as &#8220;right-to-work&#8221; bills, are seen by unions and their members as severely undermining the power of unions. Republicans, who led the effort, and Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33049,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33027\/revisions\/33049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}