So much for union claims that Proposal 2 on the 2012 ballot wasn’t about right-to-work. United Auto Workers President Bob King says it was.
Michigan voters soundly rejected Proposal 2 in November, 58 percent to 42 percent. In December, Gov. Rick Snyder asked the legislature for right-to-work legislation. The legislature passed the bills and Snyder signed them into law.
As the right-to-work measures began moving, the unions bused protesters to the Capitol building. They screamed that right-to-work hadn’t been discussed enough. And when Proposal 2 was defeated, they claimed the proposal hadn’t been about right-to-work.
But King’s initial announcement of the proposal and his recent recap to theMetro Times of why the union pursued Proposal 2 exposes exactly the opposite.