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\nA few Right to Work-related updates from over the weekend:\n<\/p>\n

\n1.) A recent survey<\/a> shows broad, bipartisan support for maintaining secret ballot elections in the workplace. Although the erroneously-titled "Employee Free Choice Act"<\/a> has gained legislative momentum, 82% of all Democrat voters, 77% of all Republicans, and 79% of Independents oppose replacing secret ballot elections with coercive "card-check" organizing drives.<\/p>\n

2.) Both the SEIU and the United Steelworkers unions are considering<\/a> overseas expansion in concert with unions in Australia, Great Britain, and elsewhere. International efforts at unionization may exacerbate existing tensions<\/a> within the SEIU over inadequate local representation.\n<\/p>\n

\n3.) Implictly rebutting the claims advanced<\/a> by union officials in a recent Detroit News op-ed, community and business leaders in Michigan are speaking<\/a> out in favor of greater worker freedom. Here are a few choice excerpts (emphasis mine):\n<\/p>\n

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    \n\tMichigan as a whole is at a critical crossroads. West Michigan wants a voice of its own," Jeanne Engelhart, president of the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce, told me in a recent interview . . .\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t. . . Engelhart doesn’t trash the Mackinac conference; she has attended in past years and found it useful. But she does suggest that west Michiganders might be more willing than Detroiters to push hard for government spending cuts and discuss controversial topics like right-to-work legislation, which would ban compulsory labor union membership."<\/b>\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t. . . Dick Haworth, chairman of Holland-based Haworth Inc., believes a serious discussion of right-to-work status for Michigan is worth pursuing. "The union environment,"<\/b> he said, "does not allow you to adapt quickly, or at all, to the world we live in."<\/b>\n\t<\/p>\n

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    \n\tIt’s not just about wages and benefits; it’s more about flexibility,<\/b> Haworth said. "In a lot of cases, we’re not using world-class methods and processes. We need to be better students of what world-class is."\n\t<\/p>\n

    \n\t \n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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