Stephen Henderson: Snyder's arguments for right-to-work are balderdash (aka bullshit)
Stephen Henderson: Snyder's arguments for right-to-work are balderdash
5:04 PM, December 6, 2012
By Stephen Henderson
Detroit Free Press Editorial Page Editor
Balderdash.
It's the best word I can come up with (OK, the best printable word) to describe the upcoming campaign to make Michigan a right-to-work state.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and the state's top legislative leaders said today they'd pursue legislation to prohibit "closed shop" union rules, arguing that it would unleash a new era of economic freedom for the state.
It won't. And simple math the consistent foil for GOP narratives these days exposes the great fallacy at the core of what Republicans in Lansing are trying to do.
This is about politics about punishing unions for their failed bid to enshrine collective bargaining in the state constitution, and about wiping them out as a formidable political base for the state's Democrats.
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