Now, in January, 36,000 Michigan state government employees will have the freedom to choose granted by the state’s Right to Work law.
From the decision:
“In light of the First Amendment rights at stake, the Michigan Legislature has made the policy decision to settle the matter by giving all employees the right to choose,” Judges Henry Saad and Pat Donofrio wrote, adding that legislators decided to “remove politics from public employment and to end all inquiry or debate about how public sector union fees are spent.”
“With PA 349, the Legislature has . . . remov[ed] political and ideological conflict from public employment, and eliminate[ed] the repeated need to decide, on a case by case basis, whether unions have properly allocated funds.”