Pension Liability - Total $72.9 billion⁶ - Per household $1,386¹

Union Membership Density:

• Total-16.5%
• Private Sector-11.1%
• Public Sector-48.9%

Right to Work: 

• Forced unionism 

Government Sector Collective Bargaining Laws:

• Police/Fire: Public Employment Relations
• State: House Bill 4214 (Enacted)
• Education: Senate Bill 157 (Enacted)
• Municipal: Senate Bill 158 (Enacted)

Paycheck Protection Law:

• Public Act 388, Chapter 169, Section 255 

Secret Ballot Protection: 

• No Provision

Forced Card Check:

• Public Employment Relations Act

Project Labor Agreement Bans:

• Senate Bill 165 (Enacted)

Government Sector Binding Arbitration Provisions:

• State: No Provision
• Police: General Laws Sec. 423.231 – 423.427
• Fire: General Laws Sec. 423.231 – 423.427
• Teachers: General Laws Sec.423.207a
  • SB No. 158 – Act No. 9 (Restricts subjects to which bargaining applies)
  • HB No. 4135 – Act No. 25 ( Collective bargaining  agreements may be rejected, modified, or terminated pursuant to the local government)

Public Access to Government Bargaining Sessions:

• Mich.  Comp. Laws. § 15.268(c) (Either Party Can Close Meeting)

Government Employee Strike Policy:

• State (Prohibited) Act 336 Chapter 423 Section 202
• Police (Prohibited) Act 336 Chapter 423 Section 202
• Fire (Prohibited) Act 336 Chapter 423 Section 202
• Teachers (Prohibited) Act 336 Chapter 423 Section 202

Michigan Labor News

• Attorney: Taylor District Violated Contract Law to Lock In 10-Year Union Agreement Posted on: May 20, 2013
  

  By Jack Spencer, Michigan Capitol Confidential
  Taylor Public Schools and its faculty union might have bypassed more than just the right-to-work law with their agreement earlier this year, according to a motion filed in the case.

• Obamacare vs. unions Posted on: May 17, 2013
  

  By Kathy Hoekstra, The Detroit News

  Michigan union members who have dug in their heels fighting the state’s right to work law. But an Obamacare analysis by Americans for Tax Reform may have some of them sitting back on those heels a bit.

• Woman sentenced for stealing from Wayne County auto workers union Posted on: May 7, 2013
  

  By Robert Sullivan, pal-item.com

  A Connersville woman was sentenced last week to three years of federally supervised probation and was ordered to pay back the more than $25,000 she embezzled from a Wayne County auto workers union.

• SEIU Tries to Continue Dues Scheme Posted on: May 6, 2013
  

  By Jarrett Skorup, Mackinac Center for Public Policy

  Today’s Michigan Capitol Confidential article is about aleaked document from the SEIU on how the union hopes to continue the “dues skim” against home-based caregivers. That story is interesting, but there is an even more significant issue regarding how the union sees the whole unionization scheme.

• SEIU Lays Out Plan to Try and Continue 'Dues Skim' Posted on: May 6, 2013
  

  By Jack Spencer, Michigan Capitol Confidential

  The union that took more than $34 million from the Medicaid checks of the elderly and disabled in Michigan before the scheme officially ended this year, wants those workers — and their money — back in.

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