Protect Our Jobs, a Michigan group working to secure collective bargaining rights, gathered more than double the 323,000 signatures needed to place a question on the Nov 6 ballot asking voters if they want to enshrine those rights in the state constitution. Protect Our Jobs has filed the signatures with the Michigan Secretary of State, and awaits certification from the State Board of Canvassers.
Protect Our Jobs contends that workers rights are being attacked in their state, making the amendment necessary: For more than a year, Lansing politicians and corporate special interests have made one attack after another on Michigan workers: cutting middle-class families' wages, health care benefits, retirement security and safety protections. They're not done yet -- there are more than 80 bills waiting for a vote in the state Legislature that would strip basic protections from working people. |