Stephen Henderson: Snyder's arguments for right-to-work are balderdash (aka bullshit)
Stephen Henderson: Snyder's arguments for right-to-work are balderdash
5:04 PM, December 6, 2012
By Stephen Henderson
Detroit Free Press Editorial Page Editor
Balderdash.
It's the best word I can come up with (OK, the best printable word) to describe the upcoming campaign to make Michigan a right-to-work state.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and the state's top legislative leaders said today they'd pursue legislation to prohibit "closed shop" union rules, arguing that it would unleash a new era of economic freedom for the state.
It won't. And simple math — the consistent foil for GOP narratives these days — exposes the great fallacy at the core of what Republicans in Lansing are trying to do.
This is about politics — about punishing unions for their failed bid to enshrine collective bargaining in the state constitution, and about wiping them out as a formidable political base for the state's Democrats.
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