FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Media Contact: Aaron Pelo, apelo@miaflcio.org | 734.355.2741
Michigan AFL-CIO Announces Release of Working People’s Legislative Scorecard
LANSING, MI – Today, the Michigan AFL-CIO released its legislative scorecard, giving the public a new tool to track their legislators’ votes on important legislation that affects Michigan workers. The scorecard shows updated votes for the 102nd legislative session, and will be updated regularly as new votes happen. By typing in their address, Michiganders can immediately access the voting records of their representatives.
“Working people should know exactly who fights for them — and who doesn’t,” said Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron BIEBER. “Our new scorecard will track the legislation that improves the lives and livelihoods of workers as well as the bills that seek to undermine workers’ freedoms and strip away our rights. We’ll track votes on the floor and in committee to make sure the legislators who stand with us are celebrated as champions for working people, and the legislators who work against us are held accountable.”
The scorecard shows a stark divide between pro-worker and anti-worker legislators in both chambers of the legislature. On average, Democratic legislators scored 99.8% while Republican legislators, on average, scored 1.8%.
The launch of the new Working People’s Scorecard comes after a productive first six months of legislative session, where lawmakers have passed a number of pro-worker policies. Some of these policies, which are tracked in the scorecard, include:
- The Expanding Workers’ Rights Package (HB 4004, SB 34, and HB 4007), which repealed “right to work” and restored prevailing wage
- Repeal of Snyder’s tax on retiree pensions (HB 4001)
- Expansion of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes (SB 04)
- Restoration of collective bargaining rights for public sector workers on a number of previously prohibited subjects of bargaining (HB 4354)
The Working People’s Scorecard is available to the public at miaflcio.org/scorecard.
The Michigan AFL-CIO, Michigan’s largest labor organization, is a federation representing forty different labor organizations, eighteen different central labor councils, and eight constituency groups representing over 1 million union members and their families.
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