detroit free press: University of Michigan graduate students sue over state law banning unions

Posted on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 : 5:09 p.m.

Two University of Michigan students are suing over a recent law passed by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Rick Snyder prohibiting graduate student researchers from unionizing, according to the Detroit Free Press.

The suit claims the law —already the subject of a legal dispute spurred by Democrat lawmakers who oppose a procedural maneuver Republicans used to put the law into immediate effect in March— violates the state constitution and the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Read the full Detroit Free Press article here.

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