UNIONS DELIVER SIGNATURES TO BLOCK RIGHT-TO-WORK IN MISSOURI

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Aug 18, 5:45 PM EDT
BY SUMMER BALLENTINE
ASSOCIATED PRESS

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Opponents forced the suspension Friday of a new Missouri law banning mandatory union fees after delivering dozens of boxes containing what they say are more than 300,000 signed petitions demanding it be put to a public vote.

More than 1,000 people hoping to block the right-to-work law rallied at the Capitol and marched to the Secretary of State's Office to hand off signatures.

Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft's spokeswoman Maura Browning said that means "essentially the rule is suspended now." If enough of the signatures are valid, it will be up to voters to decide whether to ditch the law or keep it in place.

"This is our living," said Tamara Maxwell, a union member who works at Kansas City's Ford assembly plant and was among those rallying in Jefferson City. "We should be in control of that, not one person just signing it away."

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[groundloop]

1. Good News!!!! (for a change)

[safeinOhio]

2. What we need are

Right to Vote laws.

[kimbutgar]

3. Everyone should be reminded in 2018 that this was done by rethugs only

And spread the message, "The Democratic party not allow right to work laws nor stop your community from raising the minimum wage".

[onit2day]

7. These rethugs refused to allow a voted in raise

to min wage in St Louis Mo. Voting should be mandatory in a democracy. Another attempt to destroy unions by forcing them to represent those who don't pay dues.

[sandensea]

4. Good on them - but good luck getting that past the Manchurian candidate of a governor they have.

A devout Nazi who hates unions even more than Hitler did.

[mopinko]

5. a fb friend was part of this whole movement.

he has been workin his fool ass off on these petitions, and on educating people on rtw.
posting some bloody awesome pics on his fb page.

[bitterross]

6. Right to work - for less needs to be associated with the GOP and Trump

The fact that this is what the Republicans and their President favor over the rights of workers needs to be called out - bigly.