Briefcase: Michigan unions fear some workers will stop paying - Thu, 13 Dec 2012 PST

LANSING, Mich. – Now that Michigan has become a right-to-work state, unions in this stronghold of organized labor confront a new and urgent problem: convincing members to continue paying for their services instead of taking them for free. The Republican-controlled state government approved measures making it illegal to require that nonunion workers pay fees to unions for negotiating wage