Michigan Pro-Union Move Shows Labor Wars May Help Obama
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Beth Cox works at the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dearborn, Michigan, where her grandfather was a mechanic and a United Auto Workers official.
“I went to labor parades since I was 6,” said the 42-year-old. Now she’s working for a ballot proposal to guarantee the collective-bargaining rights her family has enjoyed for three generations, and to ban laws like the one Indiana adopted in February that allow workers to avoid paying union dues.