Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia in Bloomberg On the Doomed Union Initiaitve in Michigan

Unions went for broke in Michigan and they lost big time.

Michigan voters soundly defeated 58-42% Proposal 2 -- aka Protect Our Jobs -- a measure that would have given public-sector unions a potent tool to challenge any law -- past, present or future -- limiting their benefits and powers. It would also have permanently barred Michigan from becoming a right-to-work state where payment of dues is no longer required as a condition of employment in unionized companies.

Will this defeat now open the right-to-work floodgates?

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Comments

[Res Publica Americana]

42% voted for? Plenty of leftist in Michigan, I guess, eh?

[Sudden]

Seriously.

Besides that, Shikha, it's one thing to thwart what would have been a gain by the unions. But it's another to make a gain. Admittedly, one of the biggest problems with the electorate in this country is how status quo it is. There is little motivation to uproot the status quo because the electorate lacks the brain to conceive of the negative effects of our current path. They think only in the immediate term with little foresight.

[SugarFree]

I would imagine that easily 42% of Michigan actives voters are public employees, union workers, unemployed union workers, relatives of one, the other, or both, or they economically depend on one, the other or both.

In fact, I think 42% means there we a a lot of "traitors."

[SugarFree]

Godammit, I cannot type for shit. Where's my ballot initiative?

[Rick Santorum]

Voted against this. The UAW campaigned hard for Prop 2, and I'm glad to see that it failed.

[Lord Humungus]

Even the Michigan lefties I know were against this law since it changes the constitution without a proper amendment.

[Geoff Nathan]

My experience as well. 'This does not belong in the constitution, no matter how good it sounds' was the consensus.

[The Late P Brooks]

There is little motivation to uproot the status quo because the electorate lacks the brain to conceive of the negative effects of our current path.

SOMALIA is always just one election away.

Why risk it?

[tagtann]

Dude seems to be making all kinds of sense man, Wow.

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