Michigan Democrats are poised Tuesday afternoon to send bills that would repeal the state’s Right-to-Work law and restore prevailing wage rates to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk, doing away with major Republican labor policies despised by union groups.
The bill package — House Bills 4004 and 4007 and Senate Bills 6 and 34 — is scheduled to officially clear both chambers Tuesday. The House voted through the Senate legislation in party-line votes, and lawmakers are expected to finalize all four bills later Tuesday afternoon.
Democrats have pushed the bills through the Legislature over protests from Republicans, who contend the changes will make Michigan less competitive for employers.
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Taken together, the legislation would end a 2012 law that prohibits compulsory union dues or fees and restore a construction-industry “prevailing wage” law the GOP repealed in 2018.
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