WOW protests move to MI today

Rally Girl brings us this update in the War on Workers from Michigan:

Rallies are scheduled in 13 Michigan cities today to protest a budget proposal that attacks working families and retirees.

Teamsters, along with a number of other groups including the American Association of Retired People and the Michigan League for Human Services, are standing up against Michigan’s proposed HB 4361. The bill would remove the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit, which provides benefits to nearly 800,000 low-income wage filers, and places new taxes on retirees. Those added burdens on the poor and middle class would pay for lower taxes for businesses.

According to the Associated Press, the proposal would also give emergency financial managers, who take over cities that are on the verge of becoming bankrupt, the right to alter collaborative bargaining agreements with police, fire and other public unions without their consent. Our brother Bill Black, from Teamsters Joint Council 43, said

We’re trying to protect our members and the middle class.

Protests began at 10 a.m. and are scheduled for the cities of Monroe, Marshall, Mount Clemens, Detroit, Birmingham, Livonia, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Port Huron and Kalamazoo.