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In a dramatic turnabout, it appears Michigan is about to repeal its so-called right-to-work law. The state legislature approved that repeal this week. It's a big win for unions in a state that is considered a cradle of the labor movement. We have more from Michigan Public Radio's Rick Pluta.
RICK PLUTA, BYLINE: Michigan has a storied union history, including battles to organize auto plants, going back to the 1930s. And then, labor became a powerful political force in the state. So it was a gut punch to labor when the Republican-led state legislature in 2012 voted to make Michigan a right-to-work state, and it was quickly signed by a Republican governor. So union activists were thrilled...
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PLUTA: ...As they witnessed a legislature, controlled now by Democrats, voting to repeal Michigan's right-to-work law and sending it to Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The Democratic governor has made scrapping the law a priority.
RON BIEBER: It's huge.
PLUTA: Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber says this is a day he's been waiting for and working toward for over a decade.
BIEBER: It's huge for the entire labor movement, nationally, to have a victory for working people and make progress for a change.
PLUTA: Right-to-work laws allow workers in a union shop to opt out of paying union dues. Unions often call that the, quote, "right to freeload" because those workers can get many of the benefits of union membership without actually belonging to the union. This is...
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