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UAW member Terry Bowman on the union response to Michigan’s decision to become a right-to-work state.
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Bring in our next guest because he does not want unions using his dues to push bad political agenda he is Terry Obama.
He's a union conservative he's the UAW member at an auto look at Terry welcome to the program.
What you're always going to be with you go ahead now that we've just had an argument between the -- -- and myself and our company members right -- about what -- is right to walk.
He's saying essentially that we are denying them -- has the right to form a union you on the other side of the fence what do you say.
Well it's it's all propaganda Stewart because.
I listen divert -- -- try to like in Michigan to the conditions of China and this is the propaganda that we have been hearing from day one as union members.
And we know for sure that all of that is total lies in incorrect.
Right to work represents.
Giving workers a choice the freedom of choice to choose whether or not.
They -- -- for enjoyed her assistant labor you organization.
Or the right to refrain.
From any such activity.
You know right to work was given a federal employees over fifty years ago by Democrat president John F.
Kennedy.
And that's all -- ask it is to have the same rights.
As federal employees have had for over fifty years that you -- result regular work really represent your UAW members.
If you get right to -- rules in Michigan does that not break the UAW in Michigan.
I you know I don't really think so first of -- This -- go into effect April 1 2013.
However my contract does not expire until September 2015.
Still I would even be -- exercise my protections and rights under right to work until that time however I think -- as long as the unions to reinvent themselves.
Embrace voluntary unionism and really look at this as a free market.
Issue they couldn't.
Really work harder to sell themselves.
Their product in their services to the union members.
And that's what they really need to do in the first place Terry Bellman UAW -- right -- in Lansing Michigan -- and a whole lot of it is well we thank you very much for joining us today.
Thank you distort.
Them.
