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Toledo Blade
Mich. Gov. Snyder signs into law right-to-work bills limiting unions
Union members, supporters crowd Capitol
By Tyrel Linkhorn 

LANSING —Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed right-to-work legislation, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized labor in a state that has been a cradle of the movement for generations. 

He put his signatures on the bills today, hours after the state House passed the measures. 

Mr. Snyder says a failed ballot proposal to enshrine collective bargaining rights in the constitution triggered the discussion that led to the passage and signing of right-to-work. 

During a news conference, he called the protests "an exercise in democracy." 

Earlier today, the Michigan House today approved two contentious right-to-work bills limiting unions’ power as a boisterous but mostly peaceful crowd of thousands surrounded the Michigan State Capitol. 

The bills were passed by the Michigan Senate last week. 

Michigan becomes the 24th state with right-to-work laws, which give workers a choice on whether or not to join a union and ban requirements that nonunion employees pay unions for negotiating contracts and other services. 

Earlier today, the Republican-dominated House first passed a measure dealing with public-sector workers 58-51 as protesters shouted “shame on you” from the gallery and huge crowds of union backers massed in the state Capitol halls and on the grounds. 

Democrats immediately sought to have the vote reconsidered but failed in that effort… 

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