Mackinac Center part of national network of anti-union think tanks

[sasha031]

A new report finds that Michigan’s Mackinac Center is part of a loosely connected right-wing movement designed to undermine or remove protections of organized labor.

Mother Jones reports that Michigan’s Mackinac Center is part of a larger network of right-wing think tanks designed to push a free market ideology and legislative agenda. A key component of that agenda is undermining, if not outright destroying, organized labor.

The report indicates that many of the Emergency Manager’s new powers were advocated by the Mackinac Center.

In Michigan, as Mother Jones previously reported, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, an SPN member, published a list of four policy recommendations that would give unelected “emergency managers” more power to go into municipalities and wipe out union contracts and fire local elected officials, all in the name of repairing broken budgets. All four ended up in Governor Rick Snyder’s “financial martial law,” as one GOP lawmaker described it. The bill was signed into law in March.

The Mackinac Center is tied to free market think tanks in other states through an umbrella organization called the State Policy Network
http://michiganmessenger.com/48533/mackinac-center-part-of-national-network-of-anti-union-think-tanks

[FrenchieCat]

1. Good to know. Sometimes we find out these things too late.