This Isn't Wisconsin. It's Worse, and Why.

Several cogent looks at Michigan's right-to-work-for-less legislation: Its sorry significance in the historic heart of organized labor, its likely disastrous impact on jobs and the middle class, and the truth of what is, despite libertarian blather about economic freedom, "a snarling pit bull of a policy that disempowers the institutional voice of employees—unions—for the benefit of corporations." With a furious rant from one Democratic leader. "If Michigan can become a right-to-work state within a few days, pretty much any state can... A specious argument extolling American individualism is camouflaging a power and money grab by the usual suspects, the kind of companies and propagandists those farm workers and auto workers fought back in the day."

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