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How Republicans engineered a blow to the UAW and Michigan's powerful unions

10:15 am U.S. ET | Dec. 13, 2012
From outside Michigan Republican circles, it appeared that the Republican drive to weaken unions came out of the blue -- proposed, passed and signed in a mere six days. But the transformation had been in the making since March 2011 when state Senator Pat Colbeck and a fellow freshman, state Representative Mike Shirkey, first seriously considered legislation to ban mandatory collection of union dues as a condition of employment in Michigan.... Read More »