Michigan Republicans Just Repealed a Minimum Wage Increase During a Lame-Duck Session

[workinclasszero]

They also rolled back paid sick leave before a Democrat becomes governor in January.

TONYA RILEY
DECEMBER 4, 2018 6:55 PM



With just weeks before their majority dwindles in the state’s House and Senate and Michigan’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is replaced by Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, the GOP-stacked Legislature is rushing to rewrite the laws it previously adopted.

Less than a week after a set of weakened versions of the minimum wage and paid sick leave laws passed the Senate, the House passed them late Tuesday evening as protests from the gallery echoed through the chamber. The bills now just await Snyder’s signature.

“We’re incredibly disappointed in the Legislature,” Danielle Atkinson, co-chair of MI Time to Care, the group behind the paid sick leave ballot initiative, tells Mother Jones. “The atrocity of the lame duck is that people who are not in office in January are making decisions that will make an impact for decades.”


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/michigan-republicans-minimum-wage-sick-leave-lame-duck-rick-snyder-gretchen-whitmer/

[msongs]

1. do you have a recall method for legislator seats? nt

[workinclasszero]

2. Apparently so

PUBLIC OFFICIALS SUBJECT TO RECALL: All elective officers in the state, except judicial
officers, are subject to recall by the voters of their respective districts. An officer who is being recalled may continue to perform the duties of his or her office until the result of the recall election is certified.

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/June_2011_Clerk_Accred_Manual_Chapter_18_362762_7.pdf

[pansypoo53219]

3. dicks gotta be dicks.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. This was the wage increase they passed to keep the issue off the Nov ballot

so that they could sink it with a simple majority instead of the 3/4 it would take to modify a ballot initiative.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10583253

[Buckeyeblue]

5. So we need to get it back on the ballot next year

Assuming Snyder signs it.

[LBM20]

6. Don't boo. VOTE. Superglue this SHIT to the RePUKE Party in 2020 and wipe them off the map.

[workinclasszero]

7. Totally!!!

The Republican Party needs to be wiped out in Michigan now that they proved they don’t give a damn what the voters want!