Protecting the Working Class with a Constitutional Amendment
By: Shawndrica Simmons, Esq.
Metro-Detroit AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer

The purpose of the amendment is to enshrine into our state Constitution the basic right of every worker to collectively bargain for wages, hours, benefits and work conditions.
 

It’s not much of a shock that lies are popping up in the Republican presidential nomination race. But in Michigan, Mitt Romney is telling one whopper of lie about the UAW, the auto bailout that saved two of the nation’s Big 3 car manufacturers and President Obama. In a nutshell, Romney says Obama should have let Chrysler and GM go bankrupt—that should win him a lot of votes in Michigan today—and Obama instead “gave the companies to the UAW.” Read more >>>