Michigan House Republicans Pass Bill That Strips Grad. Students of Right to Unionize
Governor Rick Snyder has repeatedly claimed he has no interest in starting a Right-To-Work war in Michigan. Whether he has been telling the truth may become very clear, very soon.
The Michigan House quickly approved SB 0971, legislation that bans the unionization of graduate student research assistants (GSRA) at public universities. There was no debate on readings of the bill or proposed amendments to it. In essence, SB 0971 was sped through the House without discussion.
SB 0971, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Republican Randy Richardville, would make it clear that GSRAs are not public employees and not subject to collective bargaining rights. The bill is in direct response to a unionization effort at the University of Michigan (U-M).
Bonnie Halloran is the President of the University of Michigan lecturers’ faculty union, LEO, which represents about 1,400 full-time and part-time non-tenured faculty on the University of Michigan’s three campuses.
Halloran had this to say about the passage of SB 0971 by the Michigan House of Representatives:
This bill is a direct assault by Republican legislators on graduate student researchers’ right to form a union.
The passage of this bill is an egregious attack on collective bargaining
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That true. No Money No Life
I was a Michigan college student a year ago and I think it’s
unfair to deny me access to the full article. However I intend
to share this fragment with my friends attending the University
of Michigan in the vague hope they’ll do something.