Michigan Senate majority leader Randy Richardville stood up tough to those big bad unions!

SB 0971 which amends 1947 PA 336 puts the hammer down on public unions trying to organize those loose knit university graduate students.  By golly, they had better apply that IRS approval process to determine whether the position can be dragged kicking and screaming into big labor subjugation! :

"(iii) An individual serving as a graduate student research assistant or in an equivalent position and any individual whose position does not have sufficient indicia of an <<employER-EMPLOYEE relationship using the 20-factor test announced by the internal revenue service of the United States department of treasury in revenue ruling 87-41, 1987-1 C.B. 296>> is not a public employee entitled to representation or collective bargaining rights under this act."

OK you radical Right Wing anti-union types, don't eat that calcified munchie all in one sitting, OK?