Union member support Michigan’s “Right-to-Work”

The Grand Rapids Press 03/30/12 Melissa Anders

“Union members take stand for right to work”

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/conservative_union_member_prot.html

Conservative union members on Thursday spoke out against a ballot drive to enshrine collective bargaining rights in the Michigan Constitution.

Terry Bowman, founder of Union Conservatives Inc., called the effort a “disastrous power grab by union officials.”

Groups of unionized workers from throughout the state launched the "Protect Our Jobs" campaign this month to collect 322,609 signatures needed to get the issue on the ballot. The proposal would prevent right-to-work legislation, along with some 80 bills that ballot proposal organizers say would curtail collective bargaining rights.

But not all union members support the movement.

“We think that this ballot petition drive is to guarantee union officials that they have that income stream continued,” Bowman said. “When you don’t have right-to-work, the union officials are not answerable or accountable to their union membership because we know that these people are forced as a condition of their employment to financially support them.”

Common Sense Review

When we hear about unions the normal thoughts are to the UAW or MEA. Yet Unions are not people. The common sense thinking of hard working people get squashed by the mob mentality.

Defining ourselves by the organization we are a part of which can steal our souls, so this group who are union but stand up and say “We are people who can think for ourselves”.

Right to work opens the door to say that we will not dictate that you have to join an organization to get a job. Giving the free will to decide your job, the effort you want to put forth at a job and being recognized for the effort of a good work ethic than protected due to time on the job s, encourage the human need for fulfillment.