Source: Poppy Harlow and Chris Isidore / CNN Money Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced Friday that the state will take over the operations of Detroit’s city government due to its long-standing financial problems. The takeover is short of a formal bankruptcy, but it will include appointing an emergency manager who would have many of the [...]
Labor unions lost another battle this week in Michigan in the ongoing assault on the rights of workers that we’ve seen in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio. In the space of a few short days, the lame duck Republican state legislature passed, and the Republican governor signed, a so-called “right to work” law. There were no [...]
Source: John Flesher and Jeff Karoub / AP / The Seattle Times LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed right-to-work legislation, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized labor in a state that has been a cradle of the movement for generations. He put his signatures on the bills Tuesday, hours after the state [...]
Source: Zachary Roth / MSNBC In what counts as a profile in courage these days, a Republican governor has vetoed large parts of a package of measures that would have made it harder for minorities and the poor to vote. Michigan governor Rick Snyder said he won’t sign a bill drawn up by GOP lawmakers which would have required a [...]
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