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Originally Posted by Mark Rapier
The unions racketeers tried to ammend the Michigan State Constitution with proposals #2 and #4 in the November election and the electorate by a wide margin defeated both measures. The newly passed RTW laws are the reaction by the legislature responding to the recent vote of their constituents to reign in the power of organized labor by denying it the right to extort funding from non union members.
Labor had become too powerful and too arrogant wielding its power and the citizens/taxpayers and their elected representatives recognised that and have taken the steps to thwart such power and to thwart the future abuse of power by diminishing it.
"for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"
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VERY well said!
In the very early years of my career, I went to work as an electronic technician at a large plant in Dallas. When I started, the Union guy sat down with me and explained very politely and professionally that, (paraphrasing) "we have a union, and I am the steward. We would like for you to join our union (and all the reasons why I should in his sales pitch,) he said that if I elected NOT to join, if an issue came up they would support me anyway."
I politely declined to join their union and if I had ever needed their help, I would have let management escort me to the gate before I would have asked for help from an organization to which I chose not to pay dues. It would have been very unfair of me to do so.
My point? Union and non union employees CAN mix, if everyone is reasonable and professional about it.