Cross-posted at Pam's House Blend.
This is why we need collective bargaining.
The Senate Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing approved a resolution Wednesday morning that starts the process to revoke partner benefits for unmarried state workers.The benefit plan was approved by the Michigan Civil Service Commission in January.
Republicans, led by Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge), have criticized the plan as being too expensive at a time when the state is facing a nearly $2 billion budget deficit...
The total projected cost of the unmarried partner benefit is approximately .003 percent (three one-thousandths of a percent) of this year’s estimated deficit.
Republicans have tried to claim that this is about fiscal responsibility. It isn't. It's about Republicans trying to prove that they are stronger than the working class, and it's about hating gays.
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