On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart reviewed the controversy in Michigan over a new union busting law.

Stewart observed that Republican Gov. Rick Snyder had described “right-to-work” laws as a “divisive” issue nearly a year ago, yet publicly supported the law this month. Today, Snyder signed “right-to-work” legislation into law only hours after it had been passed by the Michigan legislature.

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While the new law sounded like something that would strengthen unions, Stewart described it as destroying “the only leverage unions have to stay afloat.”

“So it is really a right to work around the union for the corporation,” he remarked. “It is one of those things that are actually named for the opposite of the thing they do, like strip bars call themselves gentlemen’s clubs or the TV network dedicated to making us stupider is called The Learning Channel or a TV show that only airs four days a week that calls itself a Daily Show.”

Watch video, as aired Tuesday on Comedy Central, below: