finished and signed so on tuesday, michigan became the 4th right to work state, rushing through legislation that substantial i will reduces union power by banning unions from requiring workers to pay union dues and online onshops that pay yub onwages. go governor snyder adopted the argument that he s freeing workers from having to pay union dues. i hope this gives the unions an opportunity to be more successful. by having an opportunity that really have to listen to all the workers there. and say, why are they delivering a value proposition that workers can stand up and choose to joined? the latest wave of union setbacks to hit the midwest and states where organized labor is traditionally strong like wisconsin and indiana. this time, however, it happened in michigan, the heart lanlds of the american labor movement. a state that s long been the spiritual center of postwar moern unionism. governor snider is a smart enough politician to recognize how powerfully with his
get started at legalzoom.com today. and now you re protected. so i asked before we went to the break whether this was waterloo for the american labor movement. before answering that ke, can you explain what the provisions are? i m not going to use the phrase that s commonly used. it s so ridiculous. let me give history. the phrase is coined by a guy named by vance muse, a oil industry lobbyist in houston, texas, in the 1930s, a white supremacist and segregationist. that s when the term is first brought into use. to fight against unions as sites of forced racial integration. the origin of this movement is an origin of a movement that the segregationist white supremacist south against the labor union as a site of forced racial integration. that s the genesis of this so
aren t the only low wage workers. on thursday, over two dozen fast food restaurants, included mcdonald s burger king, demanded a wage to $15 an hour as well as recognition of the newly formed union. $8 an hour is the current rate. fast food workers are also literally the lowest paid category of employees in the country. we know that building sufficient labor powers in those air why is of service economy where job creation is strongest, retail, home care, is one of the key areas to reduce the economy speaking of building economy, baseball and the american labor movement have lost marvin mill herb the
could call it governors gone wild. this guy is so bent on hurting middle class workers and public employees and the middle class, he is willing to go to any lengths. hopefully it discredits him because they don t have any kind of argument, so they have to resort to this type of fabrication. that s something we re used to. and used to it because there is, in fact, a very ugly history of this in the american labor movement, especially in the earlier years whenhey ul nd in onfr oers of factories and such to specifically provoke violence, create violence that wasn t there. this is not something that this guy was just imagining, it was something he was maybe thinking of as having been successfully used in the past. it was. they called them agent provok tours, and they would send them into peaceful demonstrations, create violence, then use the police to bust people up. we thought we were past that in
recall these people. democrat chris larson, thank you for joining us on this historic night for wisconsin. thank you. joining me now, howard fineman of the huffington post and msnbc, and robert reich, former labor secretary in the clinton administration, and author of aftershock, the next economy in america s future. robert reich, fix for us this event s position in the history of the american labor movement. lawrence, this is another example, and we ve had actually relatively few examples over the last 50 years, but over the last 100 years a number of examples of governors, of executives, politicians, basically trampling on the rights of people, making a mockery of democracy and of the rule of law. in wisconsin, the governor exposed himself. after all, his whole justification for getting rid of most of the bargaining rights of federal and state workers was to