12-08-2012, 10:43 AM
Governor Snyder is under strong attack in Michigan from Democrats and union activists.
Maybe it already was given the union-led ballot measures and lawsuits seeking to stop many of his first-term decisions to date. But making Michigan, cradle of the United Auto Workers union credited with helping build America’s middle class, the 24th state with a right-to-work law is a thunderbolt.
“I don’t think he understands yet how divisive this is going to be. It’s going to be a war – not a two-month ‘boy we’re upset kind of thing,’” said Steven Cook, president of the 170,000-member Michigan Education Association. “This is not going to help his agenda. … Cooperation is going to come to a halt.”
http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/...v_sny.html
I think Snyder did what he thought was right. He did not support RTW and tried other means of lowering unemployment and losing jobs to RTW states before he eventually got behind the act. Seems to me that he was facing reality and acting for the good of his state's economy - it could cost him politically. JMO...
Maybe it already was given the union-led ballot measures and lawsuits seeking to stop many of his first-term decisions to date. But making Michigan, cradle of the United Auto Workers union credited with helping build America’s middle class, the 24th state with a right-to-work law is a thunderbolt.
“I don’t think he understands yet how divisive this is going to be. It’s going to be a war – not a two-month ‘boy we’re upset kind of thing,’” said Steven Cook, president of the 170,000-member Michigan Education Association. “This is not going to help his agenda. … Cooperation is going to come to a halt.”
http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/...v_sny.html
I think Snyder did what he thought was right. He did not support RTW and tried other means of lowering unemployment and losing jobs to RTW states before he eventually got behind the act. Seems to me that he was facing reality and acting for the good of his state's economy - it could cost him politically. JMO...