If you thought things in Wisconsin were ugly when Governor Walker passed public sector union reforms, just wait. There’s a big fight brewing in Michigan.
It’s an interesting situation up there in Michigan: as the Detroit News rather sourly notes, the Republicans control the legislature and the governorship, while the extremely-Big Labor-friendly Proposal 2 went down in flames (58/42, not that the Detroit News wanted to mentionthat statistic). This opens up the possibility of right-to-work legislation being introduced in either the current or the next state legislative turn; it also opens up the virtual certainty of a Big Labor response that will make the Wisconsin recall meltdown look like… well, I was going to write ‘a petulant, foot-stamping, and ultimately impotent temper tantrum conducted by spoiled brats with no conception of how the world really works,’ except that that was what the Wisconsin recall meltdown really was. Anyway, it’ll be worse in Michigan. To the point where things may start actually be set on fire.
Let’s hope things aren’t really set on fire, but knowing the unions like we do it wouldn’t be the least bit surprising.
Image via CBS News
They had about one hundred leftist, union thugs protesting in the Capital building this evening. There’s not even a draft of legislation…yet. Republicans hold a super majority in the Senate and a majority in the House. They don’t need one Democrat vote to make this happen and IMO, it will. Current Governor, Rick Snyder is who the unions helped primary in to run against Lansing Mayor and Democrat, Virg Bernero, a whining bully that they knew would lose after trying to get elected after two terms of the abject destruction of the economy by former Governor Jennifer Granholm, Democrat; so they got their RINO in to “mitigate” things.
Well, this last election cycle pissed Gov. Rick off so bad because of the blatant, failed attempts by the unions to carve a special niche in Michigan’s Constitution for them by putting a handful of proposals to constitutionally change the playing field in their favor that now he’ll sign the RTW, IMO. The left is apoplectic over this and can’t do much to stop it except whine and make a big showy stink. It’s music to my ears and beauty of it is that they did this all to themselves.
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