It was pay back time for Snyder and the Repubs in the Michigan legislature. The Kochs came calling to receive a pay back for getting them elected in 2010. The Kochs would be happy if all unions would go away. Then they would be able to ravage the workers without anyone in the room to object. Right to work is only the first step in the Kochs' anti-union, anti-middle class campaign.

It's called freedom of choice.

Something that the GOP hates more then they hate everyone unlike them. Funny how they whine about choice while at the same time support a party that wants to take away all choices they don't agree with. Except in this case no one is forcing you to take a union job you made that decision by choosing to apply at a unionized business, that was your choice no one forced you to apply for said job. Really you righties just can't grasp word comprehension. Here is an example of no choice, being born with a disability outside of that life is full of choices so stop whining already.

Well, those non-union jobs ARE higher-wage jobs for the folks down south...The car companies are just applying outsourcing tactics without leaving the country.

I wish for Christmas what ill will we have seen was not so real and vital for Americans to fight. And again worse yet to have to speak acknowledgement of their aims; not just political, breaking unions, and syphoning the last strength of the middle class. But it is also about what it would mean for them to control the USA labor market. It's not like "they" consider themselves Americans first.

And as far as their office holder kennel hounds and duped masses......

nvm. The eve's cloudy and closing. Weather it and ready all for next heat.

C, that would be incorrect. The reason they're building them down here is that these are ALREADY RTW states, so they can make the same product and tell the workers to eat the lower wages.

After all, Look how helpful Unions have been to the auto industry in Michigan and ohio these last Twenty years...*Rolling eyes* And Let's not forget the thuggery and beatings and violence that has followed these Unions....They brought about their own demise and may they rest in peace.

Scott, this is no longer the 1950s.

Notice scottie repeats scenes he saw on movies about unions. Yet scottie ignores the thuggery of the anti union strike breakers as well as the hired thugs in local police departments hired to protect big business.

The auto industry wrecked itself, Scottie me boy, by making crap cars that resulted from bowing to pressure from big oil; after all, crappy MPG equals more sales in gasoline! People didn't buy Japanese cars because they were cooler or sportier or because they hated America; they bought them because it didn't cost them a c-note to commute.

Both are run by power-hungry tools who have little caring for laws except to use them to punish those they dislike; perish the thought they might be constrained by them.

We do it the old fashioned way - with boycotts. During the 50's, when a TV show did something objectionable, all the viewers had to do was call the SPONSOR of the show (usually a single company like Tide detergent or Ford) and THREATEN to stop buying the product to get it off the air. Stop buying Koch Brother's industries products (I believe Georgia Pacific building materials is one, somebody will have to educate us to the rest). Do not patronize Fox News advertisers. It may take longer this time but when their revenues dry up they will too.

Many of those union-created beneifts you list are now covered by OSHA and/or the Federal Government, which makes it a duplication of effort. Your taxes pay for OSHA and the Feds, why should you HAVE to pay union dues if you don't want too?

c, those benefits were legislated to be regulated as law through government agency, and can be taken away if those of position were to stomp out those who would stop them.

@malphi, I agree. Americans have two high cards holding to build on: our work force, and our consumer purchasing power. Just a year ago, I was skeptical of our ability to educate, organize, and collectively yield our consumer purchasing power. The "Greatest Show On Earth" continues to impress me, and I have great faith.

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Those benefits listed and more (like public education of our children instead of child labor) WOULD NOT BE LAW if unions did not FIGHT FOR THEM FIRST. Take unions away and everyone with a job will have to fight their employers and the unemployed ready to underbid them INDUVIDUALLY for the benefits and rules we take for granted here and do not exist in China, India and everywhere else companies ship factories to save labor costs. We attack unions at our peril since they are the first line of defense for workers between us and what Chinese labor lives with. I am not a union member and probably never will be, but I realize that what they have fought for over 150 years is the TRUE rising tide lifting all boats.

That is what sends me into the stratosphere , this Snyder dude is a wall st millionaire , and he is trying to tell workers what is best for them , he represents workers thinking the same as romney does

This government move will lower wages , and he has the gull to tell workers this is about FREEING THEM? The middle class are peasants to these people , to be talked down to like we are idiots

But you talk to the poor gop white trash version of Snyder on the internet , and they agree with this clown , it is astounding to witness some times

Blame ourselves for corporate greed that sends jobs overseas to be done in slavery conditions by people treated like machinery rather than humans for miniscule amounts of pay, while said corporations and their executives rake in huge profits and bonuses? What the f--k ever.

Corporate greed?

So you think a business should not outsource and not make a profit and have to shut down because a labor union wants too much? Economics 101. A business, no matter what size is in business to actually make a profit. The day you actually figure that out you will become a republican.

I already know it, numbnuts, but making a strawman doesn't make your argument accurate. The corporations were making fine profits, they just wanted more. They wanted more bonuses, more golden parachutes, more rewards for screwing the workers and doing nothing productive themselves. You pretend that they were on the verge of ceasing to exist, which is complete horsecrap, and you'd acknowledge that if you had a shred of honesty within you.

Also, I WAS a Republican, back in the 80s, when I was young and dumb enough to believe the lies. Conservativism, as it exists in the modern day in America, is the philosophy of the whiny baby who is crying for his blanket, or the sociopath who sees no value in other humans other than how they can profit him, or the credulous fool who buys the justification for those who exploit him.

RTW must not be illegal. Several states have it and there have been no successful challenges. The states that are growing and prospering are RTW states and have lower taxation. Some of the other states (CA as an example) are seeing an exodus.

Angel#77---- Hypocrisy at its finest. You want your right for abortion. You want your rights for free Obamanite phone, you want your rights for Gay Marriage. You want your rights for more gun control. But you don't want the right to work. Can you explain your true reasoning ???????

As many Companies as these Unions have single handedly killed with their overwhelming greed and strong arm attitudes have lost them ANY sympathy from the American worker...A little too late to become "Sensible" now.

Scott, I'll say again. This is no longer the 1950s. And we're tired of the extreme right's inability to grow up and get past that era.

You do have a right to work the righties problem is they don't want to pay for benefits they get from union job. So once again we see first hand in what I been saying all along...................righties prove they always have their hand out for free stuff then whine they didn't get enough.

Bronzestar...sorry again about that. Right to work wasn't voted on, but only the minority gets to vote on it. It works if you want your State to have the highest skilled workers being payed the minimum wage , for only part=time work. They take away contributing to your 401 first, then they stop the retirement plan altogether, no more retirement funds or pensions. Health Insurance cost you now 4 times as much as it did in 2001. No dental. You end up paying more for your insurance then it would to just go and see the Doctor without insurance and pay for it yourself. It's a scam that the medical field and the insurance field have cooked up a long time ago. Why do we need these middle men again. You can't really insure anybody that they're going to be healthy, then why should we pay for it. Same with life insurance, who cares your dead. send Wall St. the bill. A backwards mortgage another scam....weeeeee! they now own your house, and your paying rent again?? What the......Yup, they sure must think we just fell off the turnip truck. They don't care about you and me, so, we need to take care of ourselves. The one thing you can do to really piss them off is to get healthy and stay healthy.We just need to find the right Doctors who are there for service to the American citizens, not the kind that asks for your insurance information first.Or ones that act like they're doing us a favor.

I wish I was special, but I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here, I don't belong here. Everyone is special and deserves to be treated as such.