LANSING (WWJ) -- The State Senate Labor Committee has voted to move forward with repealing Michigan's Right-To-Work law, which has been in place for the past decade.
The repeal now moves on to the full Senate, which is also expected to approve it, with a vote planned for later Tuesday.
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A Michigan Senate Labor Committee has voted to repeal Right to Work
A Michigan Senate Labor Committee has voted to repeal Right to Work
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As for what the repeal will do, in short it will require employees working in a union shop to pay union dues in order to work there.
When promoting Right-to-Work in Michigan back in 2012, then-governor Rick Snyder said the purpose was to give workers the opportunity to join a union and pay any associated dues if they want to, instead of forcing workers to pay union dues as a condition for employment. Snyder asserted that Right-to-Work laws were shown to bring new and better jobs in states where they're enacted, although it's unclear if that came to pass here.
On the other side, powerful unions — including the Michigan Education Association, UAW and AFL-CIO — have said Right-to-Work was an attempt to shut down the unions and let big businesses create lower-paying jobs.
WWJ Newsradio 950's Beth Fisher spoke with Pat Devlin, Secretary-Treasurer of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council.
"We're definitely supportive of the repeal. It was a very divisive piece of legislation that passed. It wasn't good for the work...
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