Posted on 12/11/2012 9:41:12 AM PST by jazusamo
UPDATE 12:15 pm EST: The Republican controlled legislature has passed the right-to-work legislation 58-51. Michigan Governor Snyder is expected to sign the bill into law later today.
The vote to turn Michigan into a right-to-work state will take place today after days of protests in Lansing about the pro-worker legislation that prevents having to pay dues to a union. Not surprisingly, local police are bracing for possible violence today as more protests are planned.
Even with the outcome considered a foregone conclusion, the heated battle over right-to-work legislation in the traditional union bastion of Michigan shows no sign of cooling.
Authorities in Lansing were bracing for an onslaught of demonstrators Tuesday at the Michigan Capitol as the Legislature reconvenes for what could be final votes on bills. Hundreds of people gathered early Tuesday to get inside.
Yesterday while in Michigan campaigning for his new $1.6 trillion tax increase, President Obama slammed right-to-work states all over the country, saying legislation on the table in Lansing isn't about economics but about attacking unions.
"These so-called right-to-work laws, they don't have anything to do with economics, they have everything to do with politics," Obama told cheering workers Monday during a visit to an engine plant in Redford, Mich. "What they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money."
Schools have also been closed so teachers can go protest today because afterall, "it's all about the kids."
At least two Michigan school districts have announced plans to cancel classes Tuesday – the same day some teachers and other union protesters are expected to converge at the state Capitol to protest right-to-work legislation.
Warren Consolidated Schools in southeast Michigan is canceling school “due to the number of staff who has notified us that they will be absent” Tuesday, according to a letter from Superintendent Robert Livernois posted on the district website.
Let's not forget that President Obama refused to comment when his former chief of staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel failed to give protesting unionized teachers exactly what they wanted. Apparently his criticism only applies to Republicans.
Before this week, the last time the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike was September 8, 1987. It lasted until October 3, during which officials, teachers and parents clashed in the city's longest teachers strike ever. After it ended, I called the Chicago school system the worst in the country.
President Obama has been noticeably silent. He shouldn't be. The nation deserves to know whether his allegiances lie with his political allies in the public sector unions or with Emanuel and Duncan. This power struggle will reveal much about the constitution of the modern Democratic Party.
If the legislation in Michigan passed and singed into law by Republican Governor Richard Snyder, the Wolverine State will become the 24th in the country to have a right-to-work law on the books.
UPDATE: Much like Wisconsin in 2011, out of state union workers are being bused in to help storm the capitol.
Michigan is getting bombarded by out-of-state union activists, including protestors from Wisconsin. They're expecting union protestors from Ohio and elsewhere, too.
Look for a surge in notes from doctors practicing near the state capitol for union members skipping work on Tuesday.
bttt
Exactly, when it’s out of sight/out of mind the employee doesn’t think but many will start thinking now.
Look at Detroit, Michigan to see how the unions destroy the middle class.
One word - Schadenfreude. Now they know how I feel about ObamaCare and every other crap program he has or is pushing.
Schadenfreude and APPLAUSE.
I didn't hear about Moore, but apparently my EX-congresscritter Marky Mark Schauer was sprayed.
My own favorite quote about this type of union is along the lines of “once upon a time, Union ideals were there to ensure good work, now they’re there to protect bad work (or more appropriately, NO work)”
I’m not a Pittsburgh person but my husband hails more from there and a few years ago we went to the local museum. He recalls there was no recovery of the bomber and little evidence later.
Never seen it spelled “pilsener”; curious.
Iron City is still around and in some places here around Baltimore we can get it.
Liberals are ONLY “freedom of choice” when it comes to death of innocents.
They’re not big on choosing to work/how to work, wearing seatbelts or helmets, or if you can use your farm or waterfont any way you want.
“Kind of like with Obamacare...”
Just keep the f’n John of the Supremes away from all this...leave him to his job of collecting all of BO’s shit until the dung slingers come around to empty his cache. And then let him keep on collecting...
Beer started as hoax making comeback nearly six decades later
Pittsburgh Brewing Company bringing back Olde Frothingslosh
UPDATED 8:54 PM EDT Aug 22, 2012
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Beer so light, the foam is on the bottom.
Indeed Olde Frothingslosh is the stale pale ale. I fear I'm showing my age here! :-)
Anyone else recall the leap over the Bridge to Nowhere?(The one over the Allegheny...not the one that Sarah Palin fought in Alaska).
hahahaha!
Pittsburgh had a real "Bridge to Nowhere." The main span of the Fort Duquesne Bridge over the Allegheny River was completed in 1963. Land for the approaches had not been acquired, so the bridge stayed like this for five years.
The bridge was finally completed in 1968. It now carries Interstate Highway I-279. There are two decks of traffic.
Remember it very well. I used to do a little partying up on that bridge before they finished it. It was a cool place to just walk around. Today, you would be road kill in 5 seconds. ;~))
I remember when the drunk college kid drove through the barricades and then went off the end of the bridge and landed in the river. Amazingly, he didn't even get hurt. That's when Cordic started his Bridge Jump skits on the radio.
Remember it very well. I used to do a little partying up on that bridge before they finished it. It was a cool place to just walk around. Today, you would be road kill in 5 seconds. ;~))
I remember when the drunk college kid drove through the barricades and then went off the end of the bridge and landed in the river. Amazingly, he didn't even get hurt. That's when Cordic started his Bridge Jump skits on the radio.
Libs claiming it’s Crowder’s fault he was attacked and are saying he should have been killed. They are also saying the tent should have been burned down with people inside instead of just being torn down.
You can THANK the governor of MI for signing the right-to-work bill here at his webform:
https://somgovweb.state.mi.us/GovRelations/ShareOpinion.aspx
Yeah but not mine, only after I have spilled a lot more then they may get me.
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