Michigan Republicans are punishing the universities that go easy on Unions
A couple of weeks ago, I reported on Republicans’ outrage that universities in Michigan were renegotiating contracts with their union employees and including provisions that postponed the impact of their recently-passed Right to Work legislation by allowing for the collection of union dues for several more years.
Today, the Republicans acted on that outrage and chose to punish the schools that did this, namely the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, by eliminating 15% of their appropriation for the next year.
The way they did this was using House Bill 4221, the higher education appropriations bill. If you look at the chart on the last page of the summary (pdf), you see two columns. One is titled “15% Across-the-Board Reduction”. The one immediately adjacent is titled “Employee Contracting Funding”.
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