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Thom's blog
Now that Governor Rick Snyder signed Right-to-Work-for-less...
Into law in Michigan, the focus shifts to how working people can overturn the legislation. Unfortunately, Republicans purposefully designed the law to make this task more difficult. By attaching Right-to-Work-for-less to a budget appropriations bill, Republicans made it harder for Michigan voters to repeal the law down the road. According to the Michigan Constitution, voter referendums do not apply to budget appropriations bill. However, ballot initiatives do. And also according to the Michigan Constitution, voters have “the power to propose laws and to enact and reject laws, called the initiative.”
In other words, Michigan workers can restore any of their lost wages and collective bargaining power as a result of this law by gathering enough signatures for a ballot initiative. It would only require roughly 260,000 signatures to put Right-to-Work-for-less up for repeal through a ballot initiative.
So now it’s time to get to work. Let’s hope this was a “Todd Akin” moment, and that Governor Snyder and Republicans, who drastically overreached with this latest attack on unions, will eventually regret it. If working people stay organized, then the right wing’s assault on working people will end in Michigan, and organized labor in America can finally go on the offensive once again.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Was AFP tent attack faked? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Was AFP tent attack faked?
- Thomas "Tom" Duckworth, union member & witness at yesterday's protest.
The Best of the Rest...
Conversations with Great Minds - Bruce Bartlett, Historian / Domestic Policy Adviser to President Ronald Reagan / Treasury official under President George H. W. Bush / writes for New York Times, Financial Times, Fiscal Times, and Tax Notes magazine 
Daily Take: Medicare...could this be a Todd Aiken moment for Obama?
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Is Michigan the tipping point for Unionization?
Unions under fire in Michigan...- James Hoffa, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Hour Two: Drug tests for welfare checks?- Jamie Weinstein, The Daily Caller / Author-The Lizard King
Quote: "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" by John F Kennedy.
Hour Three: What happened to Lee Iacocca and Steve Jobs
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: AFP fake attacks their own tent at right to work rally
- Tom Duckworth, Union member & witness to AFP fake attack in Lansing yesterday.
Hour Two: Who is really behind the latest Ground Zero Mosque Islamophobia?- Rev. Bill Keller
Hour Three: Medicare...could this be a Todd Aiken moment for Obama?
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Conservatives want you to "be afraid, be very afraid of the fiscal cliff"... PLEASE!! It's the only way they know to get the ridiculous spending cuts they want for our social safety net...I'll confront the Republican boogey man when I challenge conservative Peter Ferrara of the Carleson Center for Public Policy...
Plus, my favorite segment of the week...Geeky Science!
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Should raising the Medicare age be part of the “fiscal cliff” deal?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Twinkie Robbed Worker's Pensions to Pay CEO Bonuses
Crazy Alert! Time to start preparing for interplanetary war?
Selig vs Hartmann - Why do you hate homeless people?
Prepare for life on a hotter more hostile planet
Ponte vs Hartmann - Are Republicans Afraid to Say Medicare Works?
Secrets the GOP are Keeping about Medicare...
Is this a Todd Akin Moment for Gov. Snyder?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 12/11/12: Labor Unions on Brink of Extinction?
Thom talks with Attorney and Radio Host Mike Papantonio about Michigan becoming the 24th "right-to-work (for less)" state. Also discussed: what Republicans plan to do with Medicare and Social Security, why we should help our nation's homeless and in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom details what Hostess executives decided to do with their employees' pension fund.
Thom Hartmann on the News - December 11, 2012
Caller - Peeing in cup ok
Thom vs. Jamie Weinstein - Drug tests for welfare checks?
James Hoffa - Unions under fire in Michigan
Thom - Is Michigan the tipping point for unionization?
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