12/10/12
by Karen Kelder
Producer
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Union members and activists are scheduled to gather for a silent protest at Calder Plaza at noon on Monday.
It’s all part of a statewide effort to reject right to work legislation which was passed through the Michigan House and Michigan Senate on Thursday.
The legislation was approved without any public hearings or debate. The senate and house bills must be reconciled.
Remarks will follow the silent protest, where activists will have their mouths taped.
The issue of right-to-work has become the primary issue getting attention in Lansing.
With Republicans holding the governor’s office and control of both houses of the legislature, it was expected that some form of right-to -ork bill would be proposed, even during the lame duck 2012 session.
In simple terms, right-to-work bills around the country have prohibited the common practice of requiring the establishment of union shops, where all workers are required to be members of unions if a business has a union agreement. Non-union workers are usually still required to pay dues to a union of there is a collective bargaining agreement. Right-to-work would ban such practices.
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2 Comments to “Protest Planned Against Right-To-Work Legislation”
December 10, 2012 at 4:40 PM
google wouldve came HERE to Grand Rapids if this was a Right To Work State
December 10, 2012 at 4:51 PM
InsaneWayne, how do you know that for a fact?