Also nice to see the union conservatives getting some attention.
http://www.unionconservatives.com/
Posted on 06/18/2012 5:45:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The voters of Wisconsin and California spoke loud and clear. They are tired of the special privileges and lavish benefits given to government unions and paid for by taxpayers. Apparently unions in Michigan did not get the message.
Last Wednesday, supporters of the so-called "Protect Our Jobs" Constitutional Amendment (POJA) submitted 684,286 petition signatures to the Michigan Department of State -- more than double the amount needed to put the measure on the ballot in November.
If passed, the Amendment would enshrine collective bargaining in the Michigan Constitution.
POJA would effectively destroy any chance for Michigan to give workers the right to say no to a union and still keep their job -- the main benefit of a right-to-work law. The proposal is already being billed as an anti-right-to-work measure, but the major impact would be the reversal of reforms to government union privileges. These reforms have helped Michigan turn the corner after a decade of economic malaise.
Supporters of the amendment say it is needed to help the middle class. In reality it will only help the roughly three percent of the Michigan population who are government union members, but will be paid for by everyone else.
The Amendment would make unions a super-legislature leaving them more powerful than the people's elected representatives. It would remove the governor and the Legislatures' (aka the voters') ability to place any limits on government unions' power except for strike clauses. POJA would mean Michigan could not continue, and would never achieve, the type of reforms that have saved Michigan taxpayers billions of dollars and turned states like Wisconsin around.
UAW member and President of Union Conservatives, Terry Bowman, calls POJA "an extreme measure that is unprecedented in labor history."
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I doubt this has a chance of passing.
IMO...voted down by 55+%.
Thanks for bump and ping list!
It won’t pass with national attention on it anyway.
Ha! They have just insured that EVERY conservative voter will turn out in November. Thanks Union Thugs.
I just wish we could bring the same national pressure to bear that was applied to Wisconsin.
It is time for Michigan to put a competing “Right to Work” initiative on the ballot. That way voters could say “No” to the pro-union initiative and “Yes” to “Right to Work”. This would settle this and the future of Michigan once and for all.
Expect them to do something stupid, and you won't be disappointed.
The RATS hold no,zero,zip, power at all in the state of MI now. Can you say the same for your state?
GOOD IDEA!
Ordinarily this would be a good solid move for the Democrats. It would energize their voters and move Michigan back to their column (polls show What’s His name slightly ahead). BUT this year it will backfire. It will bring out enough conservatives (given the state’s 2010 flip they are there) to defeat Obama in November.
There is no better time to do it. The GOP holds ALL the cards in Michigan.
Please add me to the ping list.
I have property and a house “up north.”
If the voters of Michigan turn this abomination down I will come home next year when my youngest graduates next year.
Please add me to the ping list.
I have property and a house “up north.”
If the voters of Michigan turn this abomination down I will come home next year when my youngest graduates next year.
I’m all for it. Michigan is already a hopeless hole. Make it the Union Example for other states and governors. Michigan could return to its near natural state in a couple of decades with small enclaves of tenacious big bosses and union halls in wilderness areas in what are now the big cities.
Agreed. This is the sort of thing they typically slip onto off-year municipal election ballots where turnout is under 30% and organized groups can game the system. No way it will pass with the turnout likely this fall.
Groups supporting the Protect Our Jobs initiative include We Are The People – Michigan, the Michigan Nurses Association, the Lecturers’ Employee Organization, the Michigan branch of the American Federation of Teachers, the Michigan AFL-CIO, the Michigan UAW, the Michigan State Utility Workers Council, the National Education Association, the Michigan Education Association, Progress Michigan, the Michigan Democratic Party and others.
Their only claim to fame currently is:
*The 2 deadliest cities in America
*A legacy of Big (DUMB) Corporate dependency
*A legacy of Big (CORUPT) Union dependency.
*Crumbling Infrastructure.
*A Culture of Be Nice, Don't Rock The Boat. (You'll scare the perch!)
Michigan has a long way to go to prove it is able to keep from shooting itself in the foot...(And scaring away the deer!)
Don’t waste your time with clowns like that. I can see from your homepage that you have the same attitude about our state as I do.
Somebody has to do the heavy lifting and those who run away are just deadwood who are completely useless in a fight.
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