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Legislation in michigan is ultimately about one thing, republicans wanting to turn a blue state red. angry protests have accompanied the decision by the states legislature to send two bills which would weaken unions to the desk of the state's governor. that man, rick snyder, has promised to sign them perhaps by tomorrow. ironically in a building named after mitt's father, george romney, who according to buzz feed opposed right to work laws, unlike his son. but governor snyder tells an dia mitchell moments ago that this is about helping workers. >> i think it's a good thing. it's about being pr...

Cindy estrada of the united auto workers, how could labor not see this coming? >> you know, part of not seeing it coming was because for a long time the governor has said he didn't want this divisive fight. and we went to the table, a number of unions to talk to the governor about how we work together in the same way that we did in the auto industry. so he misled us. he made it sound like he wanted to sit down and figure out how to keep this off the table. but when the time came for him to take leadership and be a real leader, he failed. and he blindsided us, frankly. he was saying that he was...

Transparent process, when you invite workers to the table to be part of that process. and what the governor did with the legislature, by not allowing it to be an open debate, by not allowing the public to take part in this debate is not pro-worker. pro-worker is when you do what we did in the auto crisis, when labor and management get together, and you value what workers have to say, and you value the creativity that they bring to the table and the innovation. this governor is not pro-worker. let's make one thing clear. >> congressman, this cuts right to the fabric and the culture of the state...

The table, it's a hot issue. let's show some leadership so i stepped up to say when i review it, i think it's a good thing. it's about being pro-worker, giving freedom of choice to workers, secondly in the earlier report, it's about economic development. we will get more and better jobs coming to michigan because we're going to be more competitive. it's important to make a distinction with wisconsin and ohio. that was about collective bargaining. that was about the relationship between employers and unions. this has nothing to do with that. right to work with about the relationship between the...

Governor rick snyder saying the measure is not anti-union, it's pro worker. joining us is rick cline, and mr. mccormack and byron york. >> a couple things caused the legislator to go ahead and pass it and then the protests. one is the wave of union-limiting legislation and action that's taken place in wisconsin, and indiana pass add right to work act earlier this year. and the other thing is the unions tried a new tactic to try to cut this off, is they proposed something called proposal 2 in michigan, which would have put collective bargaining rights into the constitution and would have made i...