Gutting a minimum wage increase and paid sick leave law isn’t all the anti-worker evil Michigan Republicans are getting up to in their lame duck session before Democratic Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer takes office. They’re also attacking unions, Dave Jamieson reports:
Under the proposal, if the union doesn’t win votes from a majority of workers in the bargaining unit, regardless of how many workers vote in the election, it would lose its status as the workers’ designated representative, a process known as decertification.
It so happens that the workplace elections would take place between August and November of even-numbered years — the same time frame in which unions normally work on state and federal political campaigns and get-out-the-vote efforts, typically in favor of Democrats.
What a coincidence—a way to make life harder for unions and Democrats at the same time, limiting the resources available to both and letting Republicans take further aim at working people.
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