Urge the Governor to veto HB 4929, HB 4246
It didn't take long for Republican legislators to respond to yesterday's
launch of the Protect Our Jobs campaign.
Just one day later, both the House and Senate passed HB 4929
restricting payroll deduction of union dues for school employees and
then voted on an unconstitutional maneuver to avoid an immediate effect
vote on banning graduate student research assistants from unionizing.
It's been said that an ineffective administration is the best
organizing tool--it also applies to legislators whose only goal is to
break unions and destroy the middle class instead of creating jobs.
Legislative activity today is a prime example of why all MEA members
need to be involved in the
Protect Our Jobs campaign.
It was a busy day of union busting in Lansing. Just this morning the
Senate Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing Committee reported out an
amended version of HB 4929. By this afternoon, the full Senate had taken
up the bill, throwing out one of the amendments that would have allowed
school employees to continue with automatic payroll deduction if their
union paid school districts for the cost of doing so. Amendments did
pass that require public posting of audits of union representation costs
and provide $100,000 to cover the cost of data collection (that
appropriation prevents the bill from being eligible for a voter
referendum).
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