Thursday's Detroit News extensively quotes National Right to Work president Mark Mix in an informative piece about why Michigan needs a Right to Work law.

Right to Work protections in 22 states ensure that no worker can be compelled, as a condition or employment, to join or pay dues to an unwanted union.

The militant United Auto Workers (UAW) union, which is notorious for launching intimidating card check organizing campaigns and whose unions bosses frequently whine about Right to Work, is particularly dominant in Michigan, where its forced unionism relationship with the "Big Three" automakers in Detroit has been a major cause in Michigan's economic depression (and yet, the Obama Administration is rewarding UAW union brass with a majority stake in Chrysler).

But as Mix tells the Detroit News, the struggle for employee freedom in Michigan won't be easy even though the forced unionism economic devastion is so patently obvious:

Mix, nonetheless, remains optimistic. He said interest is picking up in all the Rust Belt states because workers are wondering if what they've been promised is really going to happen or if their benefits will even be held intact. The Chrysler bankruptcy and soon to be GM filing has raised some union worker eyebrows, he said.

Of course, Michigan isn't likely to become the 23rd state to change its ways, but that doesn't stop Mix and his colleagues from answering worker phone calls.

"There is hope," Mix said. "Freedom in the workplace always wins -- even in Michigan."

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