LANSING, Mich. (AP) — State police have set up guard outside every Michigan Capitol entrance as lawmakers prepare to push through right-to-work legislation.
Dozens of union members and supporters waited around building Tuesday morning and several hundred more are clustered on the sidewalks dressed in hard hats and coveralls.
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Fifty-seven-year-old Valerie Constance is a Wayne County Community College District developmental reading instructor and member or the American Federation of Teachers. She sat on the Capitol steps with a sign shaped like a tombstone. It read: “Here lies democracy.”
Sue Brown is a 50-year-old pipefitter from Midland. She said she’s not in a union, but she’s convinced that right-to-work legislation weakens unions’ powers, leading to lower wages for everyone. She says unions including the United Auto Workers “created the middle class.”
