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The Union Trap

January 2, 2012
By
strangle

The SEIU working in concert to abridge employee rights? What happens when you have a problem to resolve with your employer, AND the union which represents you?  You lose any opportunity to fight for your job, your own interests have already been sold out collectively, and a paid advocate,...

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Labor Reform Held Up Because It Works

December 28, 2011
By
wrench

Jack McHugh writes today about a couple of labor reform bills just hanging around the Michigan State Senate. The first of them stopping the practice of union employees being paid by school districts: “… many school district payrolls contain “phantom employees” in the form of full-time union stewards who...

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MERC Excludes Graduate Student Research Assistants From Judicial Proceedings That Directly Impact Them, Attorney Says

December 14, 2011
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MERC Excludes Graduate Student Research Assistants From Judicial Proceedings That Directly Impact Them, Attorney Says

Ruling allowing unionization case to proceed ‘undermines due process’  Students’ status as non-employees needs statutory clarification MIDLAND — Hundreds of University of Michigan students who object to being re-designated as government employees for the purpose of a unionization effort have no say in the administrative proceedings pertinent to the...

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MCLF Files Motion on Behalf of New U-M Campus Group

November 2, 2011
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MCLF Files Motion on Behalf of New U-M Campus Group

370-member “Students Against GSRA Unionization” joins Melinda Day in opposing effort to unionize graduate student research assistants MIDLAND — The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation late yesterday submitted a brief on behalf of more than 370 University of Michigan graduate student research assistants asking the Michigan Employment Relations Commission to...

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Perfect Example Of Union Thuggishness

October 12, 2011
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This story is being used as an ad for the Romney campaign. Like many of the stories that point out the failure of progressive politics it reveals the bullying aspect of the far left and their ‘compassion’ for their fellow man.

Anyone who thinks progressivism is patriotic needs medicating.

Editorial Bias and Purposeful Omission

July 31, 2011
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Editorial Bias and Purposeful Omission

As many here may know, Michigan is one of the bluest of blue states in the country.  Historically, Right-To-Work has been talked about and immediately dismissed as improbable, if not impossible for Michigan, as it has been dominated by the political left, and a history of powerful unions. The...

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Accountability Is Key

July 13, 2011
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Accountability Is Key

I’ll be the first one beating the drums for our natural rights. A sign held in a recent commission meeting read “Collective Bargaining Is A Human right”. I must agree with that.  It is indeed.  As a right, we enjoy free association among men, and thus our ability to...

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Right And Proper

July 7, 2011
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Right And Proper

How do we treat each other?  When is it OK to bring up ideas in an elected body?  What venue should be more finite in its representation of electors than the next? And who decides what is appropriate, if not a simple majority? The question of appropriateness arose early...

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Sarah Palin, Granholm, and FOIA

June 10, 2011
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Sarah Palin, Granholm, and FOIA

Sometimes precedent is a beautiful thing. Many of us have wondered for years about who’s agenda it was that Jennifer Granholm pursued? It certainly was not one that favored business or any type of prosperity for the state of Michigan, so surely there must have been an underlying cause...

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Discussion On RTW

June 4, 2011
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The panel here discusses RTW (Right To Work) and the NLRB issue with SC. One commenter notes how he was threatened with a crushed head by the teamsters when he worked in Michigan, if he would have crossed the picket line. That ain’t accountability. Watch the latest video at...

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