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[Big Fitz]

The New Front in the Labor Wars Has Officially Opened in Michigan - Hit & Run : Reason.com

The unions are desperate and now seek to permanently destroy Michigan.

The initiative is very, very cleverly worded and to see the radical – even diabolical --intent behind its innocuous veneer would require an extremely informed electorate. For example, the initiative opens by declaring that:

The people shall have the rights to organize together to form, join or assist labor organizations, and to bargain collectively with a public or private employer through an exclusive representative of the employees' choosing, to the fullest extent not preempted by the laws of the United States.

Who could be against the “rights” of “the people” to organize? And who would be against giving all “the people” – in the public and private sector – the same “rights”? That would be downright un-American – tantamount to smearing the American flag with apple pie and then setting it on fire.

Sounds good don't it? What's the catch?

This ballot measure is a radical constitutional amendment that makes government-sector unions more powerful than the Legislature. If it passes, unions will set public policy in secret negotiations with their government employers. Lawmakers won’t be able to override anything they decide.

(Bold me) That's right. The creation of a PROTECTED CLASS of Corporatists... aka fascists. Very 1920/30's Germany.

 

[The T]

Caution and liberty burned. How nice.

Wonder if the resident Union Mongers agree with this?