MIRS Monday, Sept. 7, 2015

New AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber has tough words for legislative leaders who attended a Right to Work event in Missouri this week and gives his perspectives on how organized labor has been impacted by Michigan's RTW law passed in 2012. Why has the AFL-CIO not signed on to the citizens initiative to hike the Corporate Income Tax from 6 to 11 percent? Has relations between unions and business gotten better over the years?

Also, the MIRS team offers a primer to the coming week's hearings on Rep. Todd Courser and Rep. Cindy Gamrat. Could Gamrat's different approach to the ongoing scandal yield her a different result than Courser? How far will Courser's argument about politics taking place in the House get him? Answers to these questions and more.