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As a key labor union pushes into the South, red states push back

“There could be peer pressure, there can be coercion and intimidation,” he said, “and probably even more common is the union's trying to make ...

Michigan Education Association (MEA) - InfluenceWatch

The political power of the MEA was confronted in 1990 with the election of Republican Governor John Engler. Engler succeeded in enacting a law that prohibited ...

Collective Bargaining in Government - Steve Harry

The people of Michigan can get the unions out of public schools and state and local government. All we need to do is repeal PERA, the Public Employee Relations ...

Union push to repeal right-to-work law pits Whitmer against Schuette

Lansing — Six years after she rallied with right-to-work protesters at the Michigan Capitol, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen ...

Michigan strikes right-to-work law detested by unions - POLITICO

Michigan's law was highly contentious when Republicans pushed it through during the lame-duck session following the 2012 election, with unions ...

Groups to watch | Education Minnesota

The Mackinac Center, founded in 1987 in Michigan, has pushed for more charter schools, vouchers for private schools, decimating pensions for educators and ...

Behind Janus: Documents Reveal Decade-Long Plot to Kill Public ...

A key director of this charade is the State Policy Network (SPN), whose game plan is revealed in a union-busting toolkit uncovered by the Center ...

Do immigrants crossing the US southern border take union jobs ...

The number of employees in Michigan has grown over the past 10 years, yet union membership has dropped, according to the Mackinac Center for ...

Koch Brothers-Linked Group Declares New War on Unions

The Supreme Court decision to kill “agency” fees triggers a massive campaign to accelerate the demise of the American labor movement.

Opinion | The Unions That Like Trump - The New York Times

... unions,” said F. Vincent Vernuccio, director of labor policy at the Mackinac Center, a free-market think tank in Michigan. “Some unions are ...

Union membership reaches a 40-year low – Michigan Capitol ...

Union losses since the Janus decision are likely understated. A 2023 report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy analyzed the different ...

Michigan's right-to-work repeal takes effect | WOODTV.com

A spokesperson for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a right-leaning think tank, said workers should have the freedom to make their own ...

Trump Administration Adopted Strategy to Weaken Home Health ...

The SPN organization in Michigan, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, convinced state lawmakers and Republican Gov. Rick Snyder to eliminate ...

Planned repeal of right-to-work law puts Michigan on national stage

LANSING — A fight brewing over the future of Michigan's "right-to-work" law is drawing national attention as Democratic lawmakers in Lansing ...

'Incompetent dumpster fire': Michigan GOP rocked by financial ...

The Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference often lures a who's ... She appeared at MAGA rallies and ran a failed campaign for Michigan's ...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MICHIGAN

For many years, Mackinac Island was the regional center for the fur trade. ... Labor unions have existed in Michigan since statehood. The Knights of Labor ...

Mackinac Center for Public Policy - DeSmog

Much of the work of the Mackinac Center may have caused more confusion than clarity in the public discussion of the issues that it has addressed by ...

Janus and fair share fees: The organizations financing the attack on ...

... union based solely on the precedent in Abood. Why would CIR ask a ... Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and the Reason Foundation.31.

As presidential candidates campaign in 'blue wall' states, unions in ...

Fain, who described Michigan as “sacred ground” for his union at the early October rally, warned that the dream was on “life support” and that ...