Michigan is the first state in at least 60 years to go from being a right to work state to being a forest union state.

And that's a very sad development for workers for the country and the state of Michigan.

While other states have embraced the right to work no longer forcing employees to join unions,

Michigan has now reversed course, requiring all workers to pay union dues and fees.

In this episode, we talked to an economics expert about the impact of Michigan's decision to no longer

be a right to work state. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily

Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's March 3rd and this is a Sunday

edition of Morning Wire. Here to discuss Michigan's right to work reversal is Stephen Moore, distinguished

fellow in economics at the Heritage Foundation.

Stephen, thanks for joining us.

Thank you.

It's a pleasure to be with you.

Now, there's been a movement away from unions

and toward, quote, right to work in most states

across the US over the past couple of decades, but Michigan notably is going in the opposite direction.

Why is that?

So what's happened is we now have roughly 26 states that are right to work states, mostly in the

red states of the south and the mountain states and some of the midwestern states.

It's not an anti-union initiative. It just basically gives every

worker the freedom to choose whether they want to be in the union or not. I think

that's something that's misunderstood about right to work. It doesn't outlaw

unions. The northeast is pretty much a

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