One of the most hard-fought changes in Michigan history -- right-to-work legislation -- takes effect today, but its effects are largely unknown and not expected to be immediate.
Paul Egan of the Free Press write in neighboring Indiana, the impact is only beginning to be felt one year after a similar law took effect, in March 2012.
Right-to-work laws make it illegal to require financial support of a union as a condition of employment. Michigan, where the once-mighty and still-powerful UAW was born in 1935, is now the nation's 24th right-to-work state.
"Symbolically, it's huge," said Tom Juravich, a professor of labor studies and sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "In the short run, we're not going to see much catastrophic impact on the labor unions."
