Michigan Right-To-Work: Rick Snyder Signs Legislation Into Law

Michigan Governor Signs Right-To-Work Legislation Into Law
DETROIT, MI - OCTOBER 28: Michigan Governor Rick Snyder watches the pre-game warms up prior to the start of the game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on October 28, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)
DETROIT, MI - OCTOBER 28: Michigan Governor Rick Snyder watches the pre-game warms up prior to the start of the game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on October 28, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) signed Republican-backed right-to-work legislation into law on Tuesday, the governor announced at a press conference.

"Both the public sector bill and the private sector bill have been signed," Snyder said, according to TPM.

The Associated Press reports:

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — 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 Tuesday, hours after the state House passed the measures as the chants of thousands of angry pro-union protesters filled the Capitol.

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."

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