PROTECT OUR JOBS!

Michigan Teamsters has joined with labor and community groups to launch a petition drive to amend the Michigan Constitution to protect collective bargaining rights and strengthen working families. We are proud to be a part of this effort to be proactive in the face of the anti-worker measures coming out of Lansing. Petitions will be coming to your worksite and community, please sign. If you are able and willing to volunteer to collect signatures in your local or community please let us know. Protect your job, your benefits, and your voice!

Protect Our Jobs website: http://www.ProtectOurJobs.com

Right to Work Basics

Collective Bargaining Works

When it comes to protecting our jobs, our wages, and our benefits, collective bargaining works.

Collective bargaining gives all workers a voice, and the ability to come together to negotiate a fair contract. 

Unfortunately, Lansing politicians have moved one anti-worker measure after another over the past year – doing nothing to help put Michigan back to work. 

Over 80 bills have been introduced in Lansing that attack collective bargaining and workers' rights, and we must act now to protect Michigan jobs. 

Next week, we will join a statewide effort to provide concrete protections for Michigan workers to help preserve collective bargaining and strengthen the middle class. 

To win this fight, we need your voice. 

We’ll share more information over the coming days, but this will be an exciting opportunity to protect Michigan workers from Lansing politicians and corporate CEOs who are trying to take away our collective bargaining rights.

Right to Work - The Facts

Q: What is a so called "Right to Work" Law?

A: It's a loophole created under Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act that allows a state to enact a law prohibiting union security clauses in union contracts. It was enacted as part of the 1947 Taft-Hartly Act, a major anti-worker overhaul of Federal labor law pushed through the 80th Congress despite a veto by President Harry Truman. It is worth noting that this was the first Republican controlled congress since 1932.

Q: What's a union security clause?

A: A union security clause requires all workers who receive the benefits of a collective bargaining agreement to share the costs of the administration of that agreement. A Right to Work law prohibits a union security clause thus creating a "Right to Free load" law.

Join the Teamsters

Having a job is a good thing, having a job that is protected by a contract is priceless.

If you are interested in learning the benefits of organizing your workplace please fill out this form; http://www.teamster.org/content/organizing-assistance-request-form or call (313) 965-7450.

Message from President Robinson

Over the last several months you have heard about Right to Work, but do you know what it really means to you.

Right to Work will not reverse our state’s economic troubles, but it will negatively impact you and your family. Please consider these facts listed below which were obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Oklahoma lost more than 22,000 manufacturing jobs right after Right to Work took effect in 2001.

North Carolina, a Right to Work state with the smallest percentage of union workers of any state, lost more jobs than Michigan did between 1994 and 2005.

Women in Right to Work states earn 12 percent less than women in non-Right to Work states.

The percentage of people without health coverage is 30 percent higher in Right to Work states.

Both union and non-union workers in Right to Work states earn an average of $7,000 less per year.

54 percent more people get killed on the job in Right to Work states as opposed to non-Right to Work states like Michigan.

Right to Work is being promoted by corporate interests in Michigan. They are pursuing an agenda to increase their profits at the expense of your family’s livelihood, resulting in lower wages, reduced benefits and weaker worker protections