Recent Attacks

Listed below are recent attacks on MESSA and on the rights of our fellow union members.

Senate Bill 446: Increase MESSA and other government insurance disclosures
Introduced by Sen. Phil Pavlov (R) on June 15, 2011, to increase the amount of detail required in the insurance claims information that schools and local governments are required to report under a 2006 law that among other things required MESSA, the MEA teacher union's insurance affiliate, to release individual school district claims history data.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=138439

Senate Bill 446
Reported in the Senate on June 16, 2011, with the recommendation that the bill pass.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=138439

House Bill 4752: Increase MESSA and other government insurance disclosure
Introduced by Rep. Deb Shaughnessy (R) on June 14, 2011, to increase the amount of detail required in the insurance claims information that schools and local governments are required to report under a 2006 law that among other things required MESSA, the MEA teacher union's insurance affiliate, to release individual school district claims history data.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=138520

Senate Bill 165: Ban project labor agreements
Introduced by Sen. John Moolenaar (R) on February 17, 2011.
Passed 26 to 12 in the Senate on June 16, 2011, to prohibit project labor agreements in state, school and local public construction, road projects, etc., or as a condition of selective tax breaks granted for private projects. Project labor agreements require a contractor to mandate that each employee must join a union as a condition of working on a project. Note: Projects using any state money would still be subject to the “prevailing wage” law, which prohibits awarding government contracts to the lowest bidder unless the contractor pays so-called "prevailing wages" based on union pay scales, which are generally above actual market rates. Senate Bill 95 and House Bill 4224 would repeal “prevailing wage”.
See [Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"] at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=574424