http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-blasts-michigan-legislation-politics-210039036--election.html
It was union demands and strikes that put the automakers in the position they are in now... bankrupt. The unions were good long ago when the companies took advantage of the employees. Now, in the last 50+ years, the tide has turned where the unions are now the problem. My opinion that I think is shared by more than a few.
Same old complaint by the hypocrites. "Why should the non union workers get the benefit of gains made by the union in the past?" Of course no one mentions the workers whose dues are taken to cantribute to condidates that they don't support. Protestors complain that this will be the death of unions. I ask why. If the unions are so beneficial to members, then won't all the employees join? Or are unions so detestable to employees that the only way that unions can survive is to force employees to join? The answer is obvious when you see all these union leaders screaming in protest.
Suck It, Union Goons! Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Signs Right-To-Work Bill Into Law… Victory is ours. (WaPo) — At a news conference at the George W. Romney Building steps away from the state Capitol, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) announced that he’d signed the contentious right-to-work measures that have sparked protests in the state. Before dozens of reporters assembled inside a conference room on the building’s second floor, Snyder defended his move as one that would lead to ”more jobs coming to Michigan.” The two bills bar unions from making contracts that require employees to pay labor dues. One bill dealt with public sector unions, exempting firefighters and police officers. The other covered the private sector. “I view this as simply trying to get this issue behind us,” Snyder said of his decision to sign the measures the day they were passed. “And I recognize that people are going to be upset. There’ll be a continuation. But hopefully what’s really going to transpire over time is you’re going to see workers making a choice and you’ll see unions being held more accountable and responsive.” Outside the building, while the news conference was underway, some few dozen protesters were still chanting in the frigid evening air. A few yelled out, “F*** Snyder!” Some held signs reading, “Right to work? For less!” and “I’ve got a bone to pick with a dirty rat named Rick.”
White House Refuses To Condemn Michigan Democrat’s “There Will Be Blood” Comment On Right-To-Work… Via Washington Examiner: President Obama’s spokesman cited the ambiguity of the statement, “there will be blood,” as he avoided condemning the remark made by a Michigan Democrat who opposes the imminent state’s right-to-work legislation. “The president believes in debate that’s civil,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today. “I haven’t seen those comments and I’m not sure that they mean what some would interpret them to mean. I just haven’t seen them.” Speaking on the state House floor today, Democratic state Rep. Douglas Geiss said “There will be blood” as a result of the bill’s passage.
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Teamsters Top Thug James Hoffa: There Will Be A “Civil War” Over Michigan’s Right-To-Work Law… And he has an army of union goons who are more than willing to resort to violence. (CNN) - Jimmy Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said Tuesday he expects Michigan unions and lawmakers to break out into “civil war” after the state legislature passed right-to-work bills that would weaken unions’ power. “This is just the first round of a battle that’s going to divide this state. We’re going to have a civil war,” Hoffa said on CNN’s “Newsroom. As thousands of protestors gathered at the state capitol on Tuesday, Hoffa called the legislation a “tremendous mistake” and “a monumental decision to make” by outgoing lawmakers in a lame duck session. “What they’re doing is basically betraying democracy,” he told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin. “If there’s any question here, let’s put it on the ballot and let the people of Michigan decide what’s good for Michigan.”