These are the same maroons who ran the state down with their ridiculous policies. What moral ground do they have to stand upon?

And they accuse the TEA Party. Liberals are all Fascists at heart.

A "gotcha" bill at the eleventh hour...sounds like Obamacare..ha!

Two school distrits in Macomb County were closed today because the teachers all called in ´sick´ to go protest. They´re right - they are sick. We are sick too. Sick of unions who think their so-called ´rights´ trump everyone else´s.

He´s right. There will be blood, and not just in Michigan.

Be careful what you wish for, union pukes.

Elections have consequences!

The true face of organized labor unmasked.

Michigan has both the highest unionization and unemployment rates in the Midwest.

A correlation perhaps? Unions, like bad governments, exist only to perpetuate themselves and the lifestyles of the ´leadership´. Anybody who thinks unions are doing them any favors is kidding themselves. Ask why so many jobs are outsourced. Union leaderships and this administration should all be imprisoned indefinitely.

Let me think here . . .

If they bring a knife to the fight, what is it we are supposed to do again?

Aim small, miss small.

Leftists are so cute when they´re mad.

Quick! Someone check Joan " Sarah Palin crosshairs map" Walsh´s twitter feed. Has she decried the threats of violence? What about MSNBC? Are they concerned about the divisive language? /s

Just once I would love to see a member of the GOP clock one of these idiots right on the House floor.

Then tell him to bring it..

Geiss, there will only be blood if you start it, at which point you should be jailed and tried for assault.

Ah, the only response the whining toddlers on the left, know. Don´t forget, though, it´s the TEA Party we must fear. /s

Bring it wimps. Go to jail for a long time.

Then bring lots of your own blood, you are going to need it!

What a bunch of jerks, there will be blood, come up with a better saying. So employees can decide if they want to give unions money instead of unions taking their money under threat of force and bodily harm.

I always thought that requiring Americans to join an organization, especially one with political aims, was a violation of the First Amendment, specifically the freedom of association.

Of course, I also believe the campaign laws also violate our most basic right.

Leftists are always ready to starve, kill, and rob you.

We dare you.

That is perfectly okay. They are democrats. They are allowed to do such things. I want to see the pictures on TV. Wait . . . let me get the popcorn ready.

This guy Geiss is a raving lunatic!

Well, thankfully, the Michigan voters and legislators have the fully unionized Michigan law enforcement orgs there to help protect them from the union thugs...

Uh, wait. I might have made a miscalculation on that statement.

#19, you must have missed my lecture on the subject yesterday.
A union shop clause in a collective bargaining agreement requires, as a condition of continuing employment, the employee to pay union dues. The employee does not have to join the union.
What Michigan is doing is exercising their 14(B) right under the Taft Hartley act, which allows a state to make union shop clauses in collective bargaining agreements legally unenforceable.
And the teacher sickout has nothing to do, directly, with the 14(b) issue, since the taft hartley act does not apply to state and local employee unions. (there are teeny tiny aspects of Taft Hartley that do apply to state and local unions, but that subject is too arcane to discuss here.)

Sometimes, I think it would be really satisfying to just beat the snot out of these people...