rick snider making the case it's better for state and state economies to have these right to work laws at per capita income in 2010 states with the highest per capita income only one in 20 were a right to work state. >> it's totally ideological, it has nothing to do with the economy. it's really interesting that the president just won that state by about ten points and this is the first thing rick snider. >> why should i be required to join a union? it's always strange you would get a job and be required to have your paycheck lowered by union dues and not make that choice for yourself. >> you get the benefits of their collective bargaining. if they negotiate great working and health benefits you get them. >> and if you look at the overall union membership which has declined rapidly n 1983, 20.1%. in 2011 it's 11.8%. you chart that against the decline of middle-class wages, the noshlg times did a great series of articles. look at compensation from 1947 until 1979, compensation increased 100% in hourly waged, increased 72% and then stagnated and that has tracked in parallel with decline

we are about to talk to governor rick snider object it. . >>> and has a recession already started?elieve it or not, that's the forecast of lakshman achuthan. he says it started in july. we're going to press him on all that. >>> now, a movement started by american majority action called fire boehner has been trending on twitter. . but there's really not one wit of serious evidence that mr. boehner has any problems holding on to his speakership or even conservative leaders in the house. here now to try to make this weak case is ron meyer. ron, first of all, i want to say that i commend john boehner for his valiant attempts to stop the fiscal cliff and to make a deal without giving up growth principles. but when you say conservatives don't support boehner, what is eric cantor, what is paul ryan? what is jeb henesling if he's not a conservative? what is tom price if he's not a conservative? what exactly are you smoking? the top conservatives in the house support boehner. >> well, i actually don't think that somebody like tom price would if he has his choice of who he could pick out of

we'll have the latest on rick snider's race to the bottom. >>> and breaking news from the supreme court. there will be a decision on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. law professor jonathan terly has all the details. >> thanks for watching. john boehner isn't having a lot of fun this holiday season. president obama continues his pressure campaign to pass the tax cuts. the president is also taking time to be fesive. john boehner doesn't sound so merry. >> no progress report because there's no progress to report. when it comes to the fis e call cliff that's threatening our economy and threatening jobs, the white house has wasted another week. >> the phone call was pleasant, but was just more of the same. the conversations that the staff had yesterday, just more of the same. it's time for the president if he's serious to come back to us with a counteroffer. >> even though the president apparently designed the negotiating sessions at boehner's request. according to "the new york times," boehner insisted the talks include only himself and the president of the united states. boehner

what you're saying is similar to rick snider. >> we're putting the best face on it.e best of it. i think to your point about organizing challenges, part of this does, i think, beg for a better labor enforcement mechanism. we were talking about personal perm attempts. the prelance of the economy how do you organize that part of the economy. increasingly companies are relying on subcontracting their work to other companies which makes it difficult to organize across that. i would say some of that requires better labor law enforcement that says you can't do these kinds of things. >> but that's not enough. you can't stop at enforcement. you have to think aupt of the box about what the laws should be and about what the organizing model should be. first of all we need to tie people's direct bread and butter issues to the union and to issues of the workplace. if you don't have a union we're deeper in poverty. if you're a part-time worker you can't schedule daycare so you organize people around daycare about their immediate issues and as a union you can still do that. as a w

the governors that are set to be in jeopardy, rick snider and scott walker, john casic and rick scott. are the threats something that the labor leaders can pay off? >> there is not any evidence right now. they were energized this year and got the signatures to put this on the ballot in michigan proposal to enshrine collective bargaining and got over 600,000 signatures and it got clobbered by an almost 3-2 margin on november 6th. they can huff and puff right now, but they are playing defense is what it gets down to. >> we talked about the options in our first read. they can file legal actions charging the process and violated the states and opened meetings act and overturned it bypassing a voter initiated law. are those two long shot options there? >> well, there will be a lot of litigation. no question about that. they will do everything they can in court and maybe that's the best chance of success. in terms of an initiative or referendum, the bill that passed the legislature innoculates the law for being challenged in a referendum. it's got an appropriation in it. i don't see a way y

governor rick snider. he's going to be joining us live from the office in the state capitol. don't miss this. liz: dangerously close to going over the cliff. you know the date, december 31st. coming up, exclusively on fox business, former treasury secretary paul o'neill as sides dwindle own spendings, he has what needs to be done to get budget under control, easy ways to cut it and who should carry the burden. david: before the busy hour, what drove the markets with today's data download. stocks pushing up for hopes of a deal in the beltway. all three indexes in the green, hosting the three straight day of gains, s&p higher for the first time in two weeks. technology and health care led today's gainers. well, oil posting its first gain in six sessions today, edges higher after prices fell 4% over the past five trading sessions. crude closing the day up 23 cents a barrel at $85.79. u.s. small business sentiment plunging in november to the lowest level in nearly three years. national federation of independent businesses saying the index fell more than five points last month to

look at the detroit free press, which endorsed rick snider in 2010. this is the front page of the detroit free press. they put a red-framed all but all caps editorial on their front page yesterday. it is titled "a failure of leadership." check this out. two years ago, a newly elected rick snyder told the free press editorial board he was determined to be a new kind of governor, a pragmatist focused like a laser on initiatives that promise to raise standards of living for all michiganers. until last week, we believe believed him. for two years we believed him. for two years we trusts snyder's agreement. with conviction that they war electing someone more independent and more visionary than partisan apparatchiks like wisconsin's scott walker and florida's rick scott. the real motive of michigan's right to work champions is pure greed, the determination to emasculate once and all the democratic party's most reliable organizational support. snyder's right to work legalization is an attempt to institutionalize republicans' current political advantage. ever

a listen to the auto workers president who was here protesting yesterday and also the governor rick snider to our workplace and the legislators prove properly and efficiently and when it arrives on my desk, i plan on signing it. >>. the data and facts from the right to work states show it's right to work for less. it's an effort by the wealthy, by people from the right wing that they want to push wages and benefits down. >> the argument is that it makes the state more competitive and it's going to lead to more jobs, right? >> reporter: right. when you look at the data, what we know is that union workers tepid to make more. pretty significantly more than nonunion workers. a median salary for a union worker was $938 a week versus $729 for a nonunion worker. but the neighboring state of indiana recently passed this right to work legislation and the argument is being made that jobs are going to indiana. they are not coming here. in order for the jobs to be here and the states to remain competitive it has to have this legislation. all signs point that this will pass the house and the senate her

once that does if it does, it's expected that measure will head to governor rick snider's desk wheree is expected to sign it. i did talk to protesters here, i let them know that the first part did pass. one teacher i talked with who came out today said they're not listening to us standing out here. at the same time another person in favor of the measure came up to me and said, what's the latest? i said the first measure passed and she jumped up and said, yeah. you are feeling the tension start to happen here. one thing that happened 40 minutes ago a tent i don't know if you can see it there, a tent, that tent was actually for a group in favor of the right-to-work measure and one point, the unions tore it down. union members tore it down, presumably out of -- out of the tents -- the anger and the tense feeling that they are feeling here today in front of the state capitol here in michigan. >> explain to us what this mean. 23 other states that have these right-to-work laws on the books. what does this mean for michigan now? >> okay. michigan, if the second part does pass today, michiga

republican governor rick snider signed the law despite wide protests at the capitol.make it illegal for a union employee to pay union dues as a condition of their employment. >> let's explain that. just for half a second. then we'll go on. right to work, what does it mean? people ask me, what does it mean? it means unions can force somebody to pay them if they want to get a job in the state of michigan. >> well, what it means is, if you get a job, the union extracts money from your paycheck for the dues for union dues. >> well, yeah. >> automatically. >> automatically. >> you've got no choice. oh, you want to work here? well, you've got to pay us. >> right. >> what if i don't want to pay you? what if i don't want to support the candidates you support? what if they're the antithesis of my values? too bad. and so i've never understood this. >> governor snider says it was the unions who started the fight in the first place. by trying to add collective bargaining rights in the state's constitution. >> i asked them not to go forward. and the reasons i said is is you're goi

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the rust belt dinosaur has undergone an amazing transformation thanks to rick snider and local legislativedecisions and fight brutal battles at significant risk to their own political careers and to their physical safety as we saw, saying look, make it a right to work state. make michigan competitive with indiana, competitive with ohio and surrounding areas and just give people a choice when it comes to union membership. >> steve: right. he also talks about how michigan is just more thanking from a lost decade. michigan actually went into recession before the balance of the country. he said, one of the reasons is now the leaders in michigan are willing to actually take on organized labor, as we saw in the last week or so in michigan. they did just that and they're exacting some real pain. that's the 4th right to work -- 24th right to work state in the united states. >> gretchen: what might happen is what america is kind of about, which is competition. now the unions will be competing for people to pay the dues against people who don't want to pay the dues potentially and they'll figure out