Schooling in the Ownership Society: Michigan's 'nonpartisan' union busters caught in scandal

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Michigan's 'nonpartisan' union busters caught in scandal:

Michigan's 'nonpartisan' union busters caught in scandal

by Mike Klonsky

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan, calls itself a "nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to improving the quality of life." But recently this far-right, free-market think tank has been exposed for its shady, very partisan, and possibly illegal lobbying of state politicians, aimed at nothing less than breaking the back of the state's teachers union and outlawing collective-bargaining in the state of Michigan.

According to Dave Murray, writing in the Grand Rapids Free Press, the Mackinac Center's true purposes were revealed in secret email communications