The Chronicle: Michigan Unions Seek to Amend State Constitution to Protect Their Gains
A coalition of Michigan unions has launched a campaign to get that state’s Constitution amended to protect public and private employees’ collective-bargaining rights and nullify recent legislation unfriendly to labor. The proposed amendment being promoted by the group, Protect Our Jobs, says no existing or future state legislation shall prevent public or private employees from forming unions or curtail collective-bargaining agreements. Supporters of the proposed amendment need to gather more than 320,000 signatures by early July to get it on the November ballot. The legislation that the referendum seeks to nullify includes a measure—recently passed by state lawmakers and awaiting the expected signature of Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican—that would deny graduate students collective-bargaining rights and thwart a drive to unionize graduate research assistants at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
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