Democrats and two Republicans in the Michigan state House voted against an amendment to establish a Right to Work Zone in the most economically depressed areas of the state. Apparently finding jobs for the state with the…
Detroit, MI (January 28, 2010) – With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, a citizen activist announced today that he will file an appeal with the Michigan Supreme Court in an ongoing public disclosure battle over…
Michigan has been in the middle of a depression for a number of years with no end in sight. Much of the responsibility for that fact goes to state labor bosses and their allies in the legislature and governor’s office.
We expect big labor bosses will seek a bailout for their underfunded pension funds, but the UAW is seeking another bailout of sorts. As owners of a lavish golf club in Michigan the UAW is asking the township where the course is…
Mark Silverman is the Editor of the Tennessean. But in a previous career, he was a newspaper reporter in Michigan covering the Big Three, the UAW and their interaction with the politicians in Michigan. Recently, GM demanded that states pay…
Saul Anuzi gives a short history lesson about the brutal history of big labor in Michigan: The reason that the great American tradition of making cars in my home state has now gone belly up is due in large part to…
Its an unemployment rate of nearly 13% — the highest rate since 1983 — the state of Michigan desperately needs to reform its economy. Enactment of a Right to Work law would end the brain and job drain that is killing the…
David Keene looks at the effort by the Obama Administration to hand control of the Chrysler car company to the UAW and concludes its nothing more than theft and graft.
The insightful Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner looks at the business side of big labor in his recent column. It’s clear that in many cases big labor is becoming synonymous with big business: Imagine if President George W. Bush used strong-arm tactics to…