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LANSING, MI Sparrow Home Health nurses voted this week to unionize, marking the first group the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) has registered since Gov. Rick Snyder signed Right to Work legislation in 2012.
What were seeing is that Right to Work or not, nurses and others recognize that forming a union is the most effective way that they can have a voice in the workplace, said Michigan Nurses Association spokesperson Dawn Kettinger.
Ed McNeil, special assistant to the president of the American Federation of State County Municipal Employees (AFSCME) rattled off four new groups hed helped form unions this year, though he says hed have to dig through some files to find the total number theyve done since 2012.
Theyre calling us to organize them because theyre looking at the type of work that weve done in the past and how we represent people, McNeil said.
He estimates that the actual number of AFSCME members in the state is staying about the same, since some individuals are dropping out. As far as new organizing goes, Were doing more than we did before 2012, McNeil said.
More: http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/11/michigan_nurses_association_ot.html
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