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Union, Democratic leaders go after public employees April 20, 2023
There was joy throughout Michigan - among union and Democratic party leaders, anyway - when right-to-work was repealed last month. Starting in March 2024, employees can be forced to pay union dues, whether they are union members or not. A victory for worker rights, they said.
The only thing dampening the celebration was that it didn't apply to public sector (government) workers. A 2018 Supreme Court decision said that public sector employees could not be forced to join a union.
The leaders did not give up. A bill was introduced in the state Senate that requires public employers to provide the union with the personal information of all their employees, including
They must provide it every 90 days for all employees and within 30 days for new employees. Here's what the bill says:
It is Senate Bill 169, an amendment to the Public Employment Relations Act. Note that it doesn't permit the public employer to charge the union for the service. That means the taxpayers get stuck with the bill.
If this bill passes, union officials will be pestering government employees to join the union. They will have your phone number. They will have your email address. And they will know where you live. If they can get you to join the union and House Bill 4234 passes (see Revenge of the Democrats), your employer will take those union dues right out of your paycheck.
Another victory for worker rights.
Bill analysis by Senate Fiscal Agency
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