If you're going to have allies in the fight against Right to Work legislation, this is a good one to have.
Today, the legislation has a new foe: the National Football League Players Association, which represents players on Michigan’s NFL franchise, the Detroit Lions, and has come out against “right-to-work” before.
“We stood up against this in the past, and we stand against it in its current form in Michigan,” George Atallah, the association’s assistant executive director for external affairs, told ThinkProgress in a phone interview. “Our leadership and players are always proud to stand with workers in Michigan and everywhere else. We don’t think voters chose this, and we don’t think workers deserve this.”
ThinkProgress reports that the Major League Baseball players union has also come out against Right to Work legislation in Michigan which, according to the Economic Policy Institute, would diminish worker safety, make it harder for employees to obtain healthcare coverage, and cost employees as much as $1,500 in wages.