{"id":16693,"date":"2012-12-11T13:18:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16693"},"modified":"2012-12-11T13:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:18:47","slug":"michigan-passes-first-of-two-right-to-work-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16693\/michigan-passes-first-of-two-right-to-work-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Passes First of Two Right-to-Work Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/12\/11\/michigan-right-to-work-bill-passes-house_n_2278021.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a> has the summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Michigan House approved the first of two right-to-work bills Tuesday that would weaken union power in the historical labor stronghold as hundreds of protesters rallied at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-dominated chamber passed a measure dealing with public-sector workers 58-51 as protesters shouted &#8220;shame on you&#8221; from the gallery and huge crowds of union backers massed in the state Capitol halls and on the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats immediately sought to have the vote reconsidered but failed in that effort.<\/p>\n<p>Still to come was a vote on a second bill focusing on private sector workers. The Senate approved both last week. If enacted, Gov. Rick Snyder says he will sign them into law as early as Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the outcome considered a foregone conclusion, the heated battle showed no sign of cooling as lawmakers prepared to cast final votes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post has the summary: The Michigan House approved the first of two right-to-work bills Tuesday that would weaken union power in the historical labor stronghold as hundreds of protesters rallied at the Capitol. The Republican-dominated chamber passed a measure dealing with public-sector workers 58-51 as protesters shouted &#8220;shame on you&#8221; from the gallery and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1186,814,3129,420,1051],"class_list":["post-16693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-labor","tag-michigan","tag-paycheck-protection","tag-right-to-work","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16697,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions\/16697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}