Michigan voters support right-to-work

Unions and Michigan are a perfect match, right? Well, a majority of Michigan voters support right-to-work legislation.

Indiana recently became a right-to-work state.

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Earlier this month, Lansing-based Marketing Resource Group released the most recent polling result on right-to-work in Michigan. The survey, commissioned by Inside Michigan Politics, showed that 58 percent of likely voters support right-to-work. Opposition among Michigan voters participating in the survey was at 37 percent.

A right-to-work law would guarantee that no one can be forced as as condiditon of employement to join a union or have to pay dues or a fee to cover the costs associated with a union bargaining on behalf of its members.

Support for right-to-work legislation is not new phenomenon in the Great Lakes State.

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