"Fiscal emergency" bill proposed in Michigan allowing the governor the power to declare a state of exception. "Corporate coup d'état" is not too strong a term.
From the Michigan Messenger:
[The bill] would give broad new powers to emergency financial managers, who are appointed by the state treasurer. Those powers include the ability to nullify collective bargained agreements, imposition of new agreements for those bargaining units which will have effect for as much as five years after the EMF leaves office and the ability for the manager to dissolve local governing bodies of schools and cities. The EMF would also have the power to eliminate any local ordinance or law he or she decides to eliminate.
When do we get to say "aux barricades"?
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