May 18
BY JASON HANCOCK
The Kansas City Star’s Jefferson City correspondent
WINNERS
Organized labor
Sometimes not losing is as good as winning. Organized labor came into the 2013 session with a target on its back. Republicans had supermajorities in both legislative chambers and an agenda that included numerous bills aimed squarely at one of their biggest political rivals. The GOP was for the first time able to win passage of a bill making it more difficult for public-employee unions to collect dues. But because several Republicans bucked their party, the bill didn’t garner enough support to override a likely veto from Gov. Jay Nixon. Senate Democrats also managed to water down a Republican attempt to change the way the mandatory minimum wage is calculated for public construction projects. More importantly for the labor movement, the GOP largely abandoned the bill that unions most despised — a ban on unions requiring workers to pay dues, better known as “right to work.”
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