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It's the principle of the thing. The workers should get nothing and should certainly not get a seat at the bargaining table.
Joanna
^^^^^ CB; Yes, though the Tea Partiers who now rule Michigan state government are going for broke against unions , the working class , "middle" class and poor. There are forty anti-labor bills in the state legislature, according to the AFL-CIO. The CMU administration seems to be in close connection with the social fascist Tea Partiers. There has been a long term, like 15 years, focused attack on Secondary and elementary school teachers; this is something of an extension of that.
Michigan Legislature caps health insurance spending, puts new time limits on welfare
11,000 to lose assistance
The state's new 48-month limit on welfare, and tighter enforcement of the federal 60-month limit, is expected to result in more than 11,000 recipients losing benefits Oct. 1, the start of the fiscal year. Advocates for poor people called the move, projected to save $60 million in the fiscal year, heartless.
^^^^^^^ CB: Michigan's fascists have taken another leap in the long march moving Detroit from Ghetto to Concentration Camp.