Growing Divide Over Proposed Petition To Guarantee Collective Bargaining Rights

LANSING (WWJ) - A growing divide in Michigan involving a proposed petition drive to write into the Michigan Constitution a guarantee of collective bargaining rights.

WWJ Newsradio 950's Tim Skubick says that unions are behind the petition effort.

The president of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Rich Studley, is asking organized labor to reconsider its decision to launch a state-wide petition drive to protect collective bargaining rights.

Studley called the movement 'bizarre'.

"This is a bizarre, over reaction, to Indiana becoming a right to work state, it's hard to imagine what the union bosses in Detroit are thinking," said Studley.

"With the declining number of private sector union members being shoved aside by the growing power and influence of government employee unions who are increasingly radical, increasingly partisan and very confrontational," said Studley.

Studley says it's the wrong way to go, and that business will not take this lying down - if need be they will fight  'fire with fire'.