How Will the Indiana Right to Work Law Affect Michigan?

myFOXdetroit.com - Gov. Rick Snyder has not had a lot of bad hair days so far. He had one on Tuesday.

Indiana passed a Right to Work law and while that doesn't mean that will happen here, the chances may have gone up which is why the gray hair on the gov's head is a little out of whack.

"This is a grand day," boasted Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-Clark Lake) who was having a great hair day. "This will keep the pressure up," he observes as he tries to convince enough of his colleagues to follow Indiana's lead.

The Hoosiers have given him some new ammo to get there but it remains a tough sell.

What if some Michigan business guy on the border is thinking about expanding? "Heaven forbid," Shirkey observes but it's an argument he will make because he believes Indiana now has the edge and that guy will bolt.

Yet the governor and numerous segments in the state's jittery business community have remained on message: RTW is a divisive issue and will pit labor against business and the end result will not be pretty. The governor who is on the cusp of reinventing the state can see this issue moving the state back to the economic dark ages.

Shirkey is unmoved.

"It's not only Indiana," he reports, "Arizona and Minnesota" are debating this, too.

The conservative Republican can feel the "winds of change" in his hair as he pushes what he refers to as "labor freedom." Organized labor has another term for it, but it can't be printed on this family blog. So now what?

The action in Indiana complicates the Michigan debate but the governor is steadfast saying, "I don't want to see this on my desk." To which Mr. Shirkey responds, "I'll carry it in and put it on my back so it doesn't have to touch his desk."

Nice try Mr. S.