Op Ed: Gretchen Whitmer Is Selling Workers A Lemon

This article originally appeared in Newsmax on June 4 , 2023

If there were a law that forced everyone to buy their cars from one dealership, do you think the dealer would really care about the quality of the cars? Of course not. They just want to sell cars, and without competition or choice, they would have no incentive to ensure quality. That is exactly what Governor Whitmer is doing to the hard-working men and women of Michigan by repealing the state’s “right-to-work” legislation. By doing so, she is giving workers no choice but to have a portion of their paycheck deducted to pay a union they may not want to buy from.

Unions, like any business, only exist under the promise of providing high-quality services to their members.

Recognizing that Michigan’s workers should be able to make their own decision as to whether to join a union, the state’s lawmakers passed a “right-to-work” law in 2012. This law abolished union security agreements and gave workers the power to choose whether to support unions financially.

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