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      How Wolf-PAC Is Helping ALEC Rewrite the Constitution Along Right-Wing Lines

      The group, formed during Occupy Wall Street with the goal of overturning Citizens United, is collaborating with ALEC in its push for a constitutional convention.

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      Juliana Broad
      May 25, 2023

      In spearheading far-right efforts to rewrite the U.S. Constitution, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is increasingly counting on an unexpected ally: a campaign finance reform group founded during the Occupy Wall Street protests more than a decade ago.

      ALEC, a pay-to-play operation in which state legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind closed doors to advance a right-wing agenda, has long advocated for an Article V constitutional convention in order to win a balanced budget amendment and radically curtail federal powers.

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      Gov. Whitmer Signs Historic Workers Rights Bills Into Law in Michigan

      "After decades of anti-worker attacks, Michigan has restored the balance of power for working people by passing laws to protect their freedom to bargain for the good wages, good benefits, and safe workplaces they deserve," said one labor organizer.

      Julia Conley
      Mar 24, 2023

      Workers' rights advocates in Michigan on Friday applauded as Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a repeal of the state's so-called "right-to-work" law and restored the prevailing wage standard for state-funded construction projects.

      The new laws make Michigan the first state to roll back anti-union right-to-work laws, which bar unions from requiring that all workers in unionized jobs pay dues, in nearly six decades.

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      Union members from around the U.S. rally at the Michigan State Capitol

      Labor Celebrates as Michigan Senate Votes to Overturn 'Right-to-Work' Law

      The legislation will end "the failed experiment of gutting Michigan workers' rights," said one lawmaker.

      Julia Conley
      Mar 15, 2023
      Just over a decade after union members and labor advocates from across the United States rallied at the Michigan State Capitol to protest state Republicans' passage of a so-called "right-to-work" law, many of the same people were present in Lansing on Tuesday as the Democratic-led state Senate voted to end what one lawmaker called "the failed experiment of gutting Michigan workers' rights."

      Lawmakers voted along party lines, 20-17, in favor of a package of bills that will repeal the right-to-work law—which barred unions from requiring that all workers in unionized jobs pay dues—and restore a "prevailing wage" requirement that construction contractors pay union wages and and benefits on state-funded projects.

      Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer indicated on Monday that she intends to sign the bills, which will make Michigan the first state to roll back right-to-work laws in nearly six decades.

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