A federal judge has ruled that Michigan’s ban on the use of project labor agreements—pushed by Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and anti-worker lawmakers—is unconstitutional. The suit was brought by the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council. 

AFL-CIO Field Communications staffer Cathy Sherwin sends us this report.

Following the State of the State address last week, Michigan’s Gov. Rick Snyder held an online town hall meeting. Participating on Twitter using the hashtag #AskGovSnyder, union workers, the Michigan State AFL-CIO and progressive allies kept the questions coming—on jobs, needed infrastructure investments and education.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and his Republican/tea party supporters—the same gang who imposed “financial martial law” on cities and towns and is pushing a “right to work” for less law—are at it again.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) and his Republican/tea party supporters—the same gang that eliminated basic democratic rights of cities and towns by imposing a “financial martial law”—are at again. This time they are pushing a so-called right to work law as the answer to state’s foundering economy.

We haven’t checked the national polls lately to see how Texas Gov. Rick Perry is doing in his I’m-more-right-wing-conservative-than-thou race to capture the Republican presidential nomination. But it looks like he’s closing in on the lead in another important election—the Transport Workers’ (TWU‘s) Worst Governor Ever summer special election.

The drive to overturn Michigan’s “financial martial law” through a ballot initiative is close to securing enough signatures to qualify for a spot on the November 2012 ballot, nearly seven months before the deadline to file those signatures.

There have been a lot of really bad governors over the years. But working families are confronted with quite a bumper crop of despicable state chief executives who are hell-bent on eliminating good middle-class jobs, giving the wealthy and corporations big tax breaks, undermining voters’ rights, cutting funding for education and jobs and more.

Andy Richards on our Field Communications staff highlights the anti-jobs agenda of Republican state and national lawmakers.

Earlier this year, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels sat down with NPR.  During the interview, he was asked whether he thought pushing a partisan political agenda that includes deep budget cuts were worth it even if it cost a lot of jobs.  He empathetically answered, “Yes.”  This zeal for moving extreme partisan policies at all costs has taken hold across the country with anti-working family governors and their political allies.  These lawmakers ran on promises of creating jobs but instead are leaving behind massive job loss after passing ideologically-driven budgets with cuts to education, health care and other vital services that hurt working families and local communities.

It’s not enough that Michigan’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder took away basic democratic rights of cities and towns by imposing a “financial martial law” that can virtually abolish a local government in favor of an unelected Snyder appointee.

Andy Richards on our Field Communications staff describes the eight signs to look for to see if your governor is hooked on the Kochs.