From MLive.com:
By Rick Haglund
Michigan’s new Right to Work (RTW) law presents a huge challenge to the future of unions in a state known as the home of the modern labor movement.
But not for the approximately 1,700 bargaining units representing thousands of local police officers and firefighters in Michigan.
Lawmakers who rammed RTW bills through the Legislature during the lame duck session last week chose to exempt those unions from the controversial legislation, citing a 1969 law that prohibits police officers and firefighters from striking.
The law, known as Public Act 312, also mandates binding arbitration in the event of an impasse in contract negotiations.
State Police troopers and sergeants also are exempt from RTW because their collective bargaining rights were written into the state constitution.
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