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28-05-2025
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Michigan Supreme Court won't hear out Oxford High School mass shooting civil cases
Michigan Supreme Court / Hall of Justice | Photo by Jon King The Michigan Supreme Court denied a request on Wednesday filed on behalf of the parents of the victims of the 2021 Oxford High School mass shooting to hear out legal arguments that the school and its employees failed to protect their kids. The denial marks a monumental blow to civil case efforts against Oxford Community Schools by the families of students who were killed, injured or now live with the impact of the killings. In their order, the justices said that the court was not persuaded that the issues being raised by the families and their attorneys should be reviewed by the state Supreme Court. Attorneys representing the families argued in lower courts that Michigan's Governmental Tort Liability Act has been unconstitutionally protecting Oxford Public Schools and its employees from civil liability for their 'grossly negligent' actions prior to the November 2021 shooting. In September, the Michigan Court of Appeals sided with Oxford Schools in maintaining its immunity and the attorneys representing the students' families sought to have the state's highest court hear their arguments. Without their day in court, Buck Myre, father of Tate Myre who was killed in the shooting at age 16, said during a news conference Wednesday the state of Michigan is telling families that it's okay if tragedies like what happened at Oxford High School happen again and again. 'It's our government saying nothing's going to change. We don't have to change, and we're willing to sacrifice kids as a gun statistic to keep doing what we're doing,' Myre said. 'I would never want anybody to walk in these shoes that we're walking in. That's why we want there to be change.' The government should not be immune from accountability, Myre said, and every effort should be made to analyze what the school did wrong and how the lives of his son, Hana St. Juliana, 14; Justin Shilling, 17, and Madisyn Baldwin, 17, could have been saved. Could a Michigan school shooting have been prevented? Soon after the tragedy at Oxford High School, the public became aware that on the day of the shooting, where the shooter, then a 15-year-old student at the school, drew pictures of the gun he had brought to school on an assignment, along with a bloodied figure and the words 'Blood everywhere,', 'The world is dead.' and 'Help me.' The shooter had several interactions in recent months with school employees about concerning behaviors like an apparent drop in mood and searching online for firearm ammunition during class. After a teacher saw what the shooter drew on his assignment, his parents were called to the school for a meeting with school staff who didn't make the parents take their son home for the day, nor did anyone at the school check his school bag for the gun. The shooter was sentenced to Michigan's highest criminal penalty, life in prison without the possibility of parole, in December of 2023. His parents were sentenced to 10-15 years in prison on four counts of involuntary manslaughter for their role in the killings in April 2024. Judges throw out Oxford school shooting families' case against school officials The reality is there have been more school shootings since Oxford and there are things the world could've learned from this tragedy if the courts would allow light to shine on that day back in 2021, Meghan Gregory, mother of Keegan Gregory who survived the Oxford High School shooting said during the Wednesday news conference. Those kids' lives matter, Gregory said, and so while Oxford Schools can hide behind immunity, the families whose lives are forever changed by the shooting will work to find a way for accountability to happen and the truth to be revealed. 'I think we're all still kind of just trying to process that they won't even listen to our case,' Gregory said. 'This was a mass casualty, this was a huge deal and the fact they don't seem to care is just, it's really disheartening.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
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28-05-2025
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Michigan Supreme Court won't hear out Oxford High School mass shooting civil cases
Michigan Supreme Court / Hall of Justice | Photo by Jon King The Michigan Supreme Court denied a request on Wednesday filed on behalf of the parents of the victims of the 2021 Oxford High School mass shooting to hear out legal arguments that the school and its employees failed to protect their kids. The denial marks a monumental blow to civil case efforts against Oxford Community Schools by the families of students who were killed, injured or now live with the impact of the killings. In their order, the justices said that the court was not persuaded that the issues being raised by the families and their attorneys should be reviewed by the state Supreme Court. Attorneys representing the families argued in lower courts that Michigan's Governmental Tort Liability Act has been unconstitutionally protecting Oxford Public Schools and its employees from civil liability for their 'grossly negligent' actions prior to the November 2021 shooting. In September, the Michigan Court of Appeals sided with Oxford Schools in maintaining its immunity and the attorneys representing the students' families sought to have the state's highest court hear their arguments. Without their day in court, Buck Myre, father of Tate Myre who was killed in the shooting at age 16, said during a news conference Wednesday the state of Michigan is telling families that it's okay if tragedies like what happened at Oxford High School happen again and again. 'It's our government saying nothing's going to change. We don't have to change, and we're willing to sacrifice kids as a gun statistic to keep doing what we're doing,' Myre said. 'I would never want anybody to walk in these shoes that we're walking in. That's why we want there to be change.' The government should not be immune from accountability, Myre said, and every effort should be made to analyze what the school did wrong and how the lives of his son, Hana St. Juliana, 14; Justin Shilling, 17, and Madisyn Baldwin, 17, could have been saved. Could a Michigan school shooting have been prevented? Soon after the tragedy at Oxford High School, the public became aware that on the day of the shooting, where the shooter, then a 15-year-old student at the school, drew pictures of the gun he had brought to school on an assignment, along with a bloodied figure and the words 'Blood everywhere,', 'The world is dead.' and 'Help me.' The shooter had several interactions in recent months with school employees about concerning behaviors like an apparent drop in mood and searching online for firearm ammunition during class. After a teacher saw what the shooter drew on his assignment, his parents were called to the school for a meeting with school staff who didn't make the parents take their son home for the day, nor did anyone at the school check his school bag for the gun. The shooter was sentenced to Michigan's highest criminal penalty, life in prison without the possibility of parole, in December of 2023. His parents were sentenced to 10-15 years in prison on four counts of involuntary manslaughter for their role in the killings in April 2024. Judges throw out Oxford school shooting families' case against school officials The reality is there have been more school shootings since Oxford and there are things the world could've learned from this tragedy if the courts would allow light to shine on that day back in 2021, Meghan Gregory, mother of Keegan Gregory who survived the Oxford High School shooting said during the Wednesday news conference. Those kids' lives matter, Gregory said, and so while Oxford Schools can hide behind immunity, the families whose lives are forever changed by the shooting will work to find a way for accountability to happen and the truth to be revealed. 'I think we're all still kind of just trying to process that they won't even listen to our case,' Gregory said. 'This was a mass casualty, this was a huge deal and the fact they don't seem to care is just, it's really disheartening.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
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09-05-2025
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Michigan Advance wins second straight Michigan Press Association News Media Publication of the Year
Susan J. Demas photo and illustration The Michigan Advance has been named the Michigan Press Association's News Media Publication of the Year for 2024, the second straight year the publication has won the organization's top honor. The awards were announced Thursday evening at the association's annual gathering in Frankenmuth. The theme for the event was 'Journalism…Democracy in Action.' In total, the Michigan Advance took home 17 awards spanning 18 categories in the 2024 MPA Better Newspaper Contest, including first place for Government/Education News, Sports Writing, Digital Presentation, News Photo, and Feature Photo. 'Myself and the staff at Michigan Advance are incredibly honored to have again been selected as News Media Publication of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. This recognition is a testament to our team's dedication to public service journalism, spanning in-depth government coverage to compelling visual storytelling. Our back-to-back win reinforces the Advance's commitment to informing and engaging Michiganders every single day,' said Editor-in-Chief Jon King. The annual contest ran from Aug. 1, 2023, through July 31, 2024. The Michigan Advance is a member of States Newsroom, the nation's largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. The network reports on politics and policy from every capital, with coverage provided free of charge – without pop-ups, paywalls or ads. Competing against other statewide publications, Michigan Advance won second place in 2021 and 2022 for Newspaper of the Year. Previously, the Advance was named the 2020 Newspaper of the Year for Class D weekly publications. The Advance also took second place for Newspaper of the Year in that category in 2019. 'The annual Michigan Press Association Better Newspaper Contest gives our members a chance each year to assess and put forth their team's best work in journalism, photojournalism, column writing, graphic design and advertising,' said Wes Smith, Michigan Press Association past president and group publisher of View Newspaper Group. 'It is a rare moment in our profession where we allow ourselves to reflect and experience something akin to satisfaction for a job well done. Anyone in this business today is in it, not for kudos, but because of a passion and desire to serve our readers, our advertisers and our communities.' 2024 Statewide News Media Publication of the Year 1st Place – Best Digital Presentation – Nelle Dunlap, Goran Butorac, Susan J. Demas 1st Place – Government/Education News – Was Ottawa County's newest commissioner punished for running? – Sarah Leach 2nd Place – Government/Education News – 'Trauma after trauma': Nassar survivors grapple with another sexual abuse investigation at MSU – Anna Gustafson 1st Place – Best Newspaper/Publication Design – Nelle Dunlap, Goran Butorac, Susan J. Demas 1st Place – Sports Writing – Riley Gaines' selection as commencement speaker riles some Adrian College alums – Jon King 1st Place – News Photo – Supporters defiantly wave Trump's mug shot as he speaks in Detroit – Andrew Roth 2nd Place – News Photo – President Biden warns Trump is out for 'revenge' – Andrew Roth 1st Place – Feature Photo – Ms. Tea says the rent is 'too damn high' – Anna Liz Nichols 2nd Place – Feature Photo – Abortion rights loom large in 2024 campaign – Lucy Valeski 3rd Place – Feature Photo – Legendary singer Diana Ross wows Detroit at Michigan Central Station reopening – Andrew Roth 2nd Place – Reporter of the Year – Anna Liz Nichols 2nd Place – Spot News Story – Michigan State University to release thousands of Nassar documents, Nessel reopens investigation – Anna Liz Nichols 2nd Place – Best Page or Pages Design – 'Yearning for help': Teen dating violence survivors and allies call for more education on abuse – Anna Liz Nichols, Susan J. Demas 2nd Place – News Enterprise Reporting – LGBTQ+ Michiganders struggle for rights, acceptance – Jon King, Anna Liz Nichols, Andrew Roth 3rd Place – News Enterprise Reporting – The 'mom gap': Few mothers have served in the Michigan Legislature while raising children – Anna Liz Nichols 3rd Place – Business/Agriculture News – 'We fight the good fight and continue forward'- Jon King, Susan J. Demas 3rd Place – Opinion – Rick Haglund SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
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05-05-2025
- Politics
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‘Purposeful Warrior' Jocelyn Benson releases memoir as she sets sight on governor's mansion
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson at a news conference, Dec. 12, 2023 | Jon King It was a year ago that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced she was writing a book, 'The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up For What's Right When the Stakes are High,' set for release on Tuesday. But much has changed since then: not least is her official entry into the race for the Democratic nomination for Michigan governor in 2026. Michigan Advance Editor Jon King spoke with Benson about the memoir, how her experiences – including writing 'the book on secretaries of state' and becoming the youngest woman ever to lead a U.S. law school – led her to become Michigan's top elections officer, as well as her campaign to become governor. What follows is a conversation that has been edited for length and clarity. Advance questions are in bold, and Benson's responses are in regular type. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX Until now, the book you're most associated with is 2010's 'State Secretaries of State,' a literal textbook on administering elections. Your latest is a memoir centered on your time as Michigan's secretary of state. After more than six years in that role, what would you change in how you approached that first book? That's a great question. I think I certainly have found one of the key components of that first book, which was about the importance of being a professional, transparent secretary of state regardless of your party affiliation, regardless of whether you're appointed or elected. That was really the essence to me of the book, that the person can lead. That still holds true today and a lot of what I experienced has just reinforced how important it is for the chief election officers in states like ours to be secretaries of state first before anything else. Meaning they're professional, bipartisan, making sure government works for everyone, regardless of how someone votes or who they vote for. In the 'Purposeful Warrior' you talk about some of your personal heroes like Viola Liuzzo or Robert F. Kennedy, but you also mention [former Florida Secretary of State] Katherine Harris and [former Ohio Secretary of State] Kenneth Blackwell… Not as heroes though (laughing). To me there are people who personified the stories of challenges, of turbulence, of things gone wrong. It's a part of the book talking about finding inspiration as we define who we are and finding power in the stories of others to figure out what we want to do to respond to uncertain moments and build a better world. But the second component of the book is seeing every challenge, every missed opportunity, every bad example of leadership, as an opportunity for growth, or to get better. A big theme of of me bringing up someone like Katherine Harris was her, in my view, misuse of her office. And interference in a presidential election is what spurred me to want to be better and to do better and to be a secretary of state who would instead work to instill faith and security in the elections process. So, we can take positive examples through history or life to embolden us on our path, but negative examples of what not to do can also provide us with an opportunity to do better and to also build resilience, and I try to take something that was broken and fix it and put it back better. There was a passage in your book where you talk about channeling rage into purpose, using the lemons into lemonade metaphor. How important of a philosophy is that for you? It is three steps of allowing yourself to be upset and angry, not trying to dismiss it or get past it, but staying in that state for as long as you need to and then finding eventually more of an objective take on a situation that enables you to make lemonade. Respond in such a way that is not just more powerful than otherwise might've been had that rage not initiated, but also something that is more effective in furthering your own hopes or vision for the world. We can use these moments that enrage us to inspire us to do more than otherwise might've been. You start 'The Purposeful Warrior' recounting the night in December 2020 that armed protesters supporting President Trump's attempts to subvert the election results, showed up at your home in Detroit. You're there alone with your young son. You describe obviously any parent's fear and anxiety in that moment, and then finding a way forward. It was very similar to that three step process we were talking about. As it was happening it was scary. It was terrifying. I didn't know what was going to happen next. The uncertainty of that moment was really unnerving. The second step was to step back and say 'Wait. They're actually not protesting me. They're protesting the voice of the people, the will of the people, the results of this election.' As soon as I made that connection, I found the strength to say, 'Not on my watch.' You write about becoming the dean of the Wayne State University Law School, and your experience there, and then later when you became the Michigan secretary of state. Were they similar experiences in the sense of coming into a hidebound institution not necessarily welcome to change? And yet you brought change to both. When I became secretary of state I had two goals: to increase voter turnout in our state across the board and to reduce wait times in our office. Everything we do is aligned with that and it means also being willing to take things apart and build them back again in a better or different way, which we did with our branch offices to achieve those goals. Similarly, when I became the dean at Wayne State Law School, we were in the bottom tier among law schools. The goal was to get into that top 50 and to build a plan to do that based on metrics and data and best practice. Ultimately it got to 55 in recent years, which was a great success. It starts with clear goals of where we're headed, and those goals need to be bold and crystal clear. You came into the secretary of state position with a vision for how things could be done. What's your vision for being Michigan's governor? Why do you want to be governor? I'm a mom who has an 8-year-old kid, who in 10 years is going to be making decisions about whether or not he wants to stay in Michigan and whether or not we've given him, as a state, a good childhood with quality education where he wants to put down his roots. I want him to see Michigan is the best place to build his future, and I want the same for every family in the state, and that means ensuring that government works well. It means investing in public education and ensuring needed funding and support actually reaches the teachers and students who need it. So, whether it's driving down costs on things like housing and food and childcare, whether it's investing in our education system to, in my view, make us in the top 10 instead of the bottom 10 of public school systems nationwide, or simply just making government work better and more efficiently, I've done all of those things in other realms, and now I'm ready to put that skill set and that track record to work for the people in Michigan In the book you talk about the lead up to the 2018 election. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan drafted a memo basically seeking to find somebody other than Gretchen Whitmer to run for governor, specifically a male Democrat like U.S. Sen. Gary Peters. Is that something you planned to include in the book before Duggan announced an independent bid for governor? Yes. I began writing this book in 2021 in the wake of everything we experienced in 2020, really with a goal of telling that story and telling the story of what it was like both to stand up to powerful people like the president of the United States and protect the vote of Michiganders in 2020, and a part of telling that story also involved telling about how the women of Michigan provided support for each other and got to those positions in 2020. That 2018 election was such a fascinating story about three women [Whitmer, Benson and Dana Nessel] running for office with very different paths and the headwinds we encountered in those respective paths and how we dealt with it. So, those efforts to recruit other candidates to run against Governor Whitmer were well documented efforts and I felt talking about them was really important to building the context of what we as individual candidates went through and women went through in 2018 on the path to becoming the sort of nationally recognized women of Michigan in 2020 and beyond.
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13-04-2025
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Democratic and Republican Lawmakers Work to Undermine Voter-Backed Wage and Sick Leave Laws
A supporter of increases in earned sick time rallies at the Michigan Capitol. Jan. 29, 2025. Photo by Jon King This story was originally published by Capital & Main Where legislatures have refused to boost pay and benefits for workers, advocates have often taken the fight straight to voters. In recent years voters in Michigan, Missouri and Nebraska overwhelmingly backed higher state minimum wages and guaranteed paid sick leave at the polls. But despite that strong showing of support, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are now trying to water down or even roll back the measures their constituents approved. In November, 58% of Missouri voters approved Proposition A, which raises the state minimum wage to $15 by 2026 and requires employers to provide paid sick leave. That level of support, said Missouri Jobs with Justice Policy Director Richard Von Glahn, stems from the fact that the measure 'speaks to the experiences that voters have in their lives and where the economy is not working for them.' Typically, when his organization was out gathering signatures, voters expressed surprise that the minimum wage was not already $15 an hour and that paid sick leave was not already a guarantee. The vote shows it was 'the clear will of what voters want,' Von Glahn said. But in March the Missouri House passed legislation repealing the paid sick leave measure and undoing the state's decades-long practice of regularly updating the minimum wage to keep up with inflation. If the bill becomes law, wage increases will cease in January 2027. To justify such changes, Republican state Rep. Mitch Boggs said, 'Of course the people voted for it. It would be like asking your teenager if he wanted a checkbook. They're going to vote for it every time.' Republican state Rep. Scott Miller put it another way: 'Just because 57% of the people that voted that day, voted in favor of something, that doesn't make it right,' he said, adding, 'They're taking away the choice of businesses to engage in [the] free market.' It's not just lawmakers trying to undo the will of the voters, however. A group of businesses and individuals have asked the state Supreme Court to strike down the measure entirely, arguing that it violates the state Constitution's single subject requirement. In their lawsuit they claim that wages and paid sick time are separate issues that should not have been combined in a single measure. Von Glahn pushed back on that argument: 'Wages for hours worked and wages for paid sick time, that's part of total compensation,' Von Glahn said. 'As a working person, if I have money in my check, do I care if it's from paid sick days or from hours that I worked?' Nebraska voters passed their own paid sick leave ballot measure by a staggering 74% this past November. A majority of voters in every legislative district supported it, and the support was higher than for the lawmakers themselves. That's not the only measure state lawmakers want to change, however. In 2022, nearly 59% of voters approved a measure that will raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026 and keep increasing it in later years to keep up with inflation. 'Nebraskans really care about their neighbors,' Jo Giles, executive director of the Women's Fund of Omaha, said of the support both measures received. Paid sick leave, she said, is 'a common sense solution.' As in Missouri, many voters she spoke to while gathering signatures were surprised it wasn't already guaranteed. And yet efforts to get lawmakers to take action themselves had not succeeded. 'We tried for many years,' Giles said, including during the height of the pandemic when workers were getting sick by the thousands. But bills never moved forward. 'After many, many attempts, we determined, 'OK, we're not going to get it through the Legislature, so let's ask the people what they want,'' Giles said. 'It was pretty clear what the people wanted: They wanted paid sick leave, they wanted to increase the minimum wage.' 'What does that mean for our overall democracy if people cannot exercise their voice and implement policies that are popular?' – Jo Giles, Women's Fund of Omaha That hasn't stopped Nebraska lawmakers from seeking to change the measures approved by their constituents. Last year, two state lawmakers introduced bills to exempt young workers from the higher wage. Nebraska's Legislature is officially nonpartisan, but one of the lawmakers was aligned with Democrats and the other with Republicans. The effort failed to advance in the Legislature. This session, those two lawmakers and others are seeking to weaken both the minimum wage and sick leave policies. Legislative Bill 698, introduced by a Republican-aligned senator, would exempt companies with 10 or fewer employees from the paid sick leave requirement. Yet the measure voters passed already makes an allowance for small businesses by allowing those with 20 or fewer employees to provide their workers with fewer days of leave. The bill would also exempt agricultural workers and those under 16 while eliminating employees' right to sue their employers if they aren't given the leave they're owed. Giles argued that these changes gut 'the core aspects' of the initiative. Another bill introduced this year, Legislative Bill 258, meanwhile, would allow employers to pay people younger than 19 a lower minimum wage and would eliminate future minimum wage increases. Beyond the impact on workers themselves, Giles thinks lawmakers' actions could harm the entire state. 'What does that mean for our overall democracy if people cannot exercise their voice and implement policies that are popular?' she said. Residents' votes 'should be honored.' In both Missouri and Nebraska, conservative lawmakers have led the charge to roll back ballot measures. In Michigan, Democrats have joined the effort. Back in 2012, Mothering Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for issues impacting women of color, started pushing for a paid sick leave bill in the state Legislature, but Republicans stood in the way. It became clear that 'if we wanted to get this done, we would have to go straight to voters,' said Danielle Atkinson, founder of Mothering Justice. Her group was poised to do so, submitting over 280,000 signatures to put both paid sick leave and a higher minimum wage on the ballot in 2018. There was 'always overwhelming support' from voters, she said, because it 'was extremely popular and needed.' But then the Republican-controlled Legislature stepped in that September. Over united Democratic opposition in the state Senate but with some Democratic support in the state House, lawmakers passed legislation to raise the minimum wage and institute a paid sick leave requirement before voters had the chance to weigh in. That wasn't because lawmakers agreed with the ballot measures; they did so explicitly to come back and gut both measures later on, something that would have been much harder had the issues passed by ballot measure. 'We had an opportunity to be a pretty big part of a larger movement to eliminate a sub-minimum wage, and we missed it.' – Danielle Atkinson, Mothering Justice State Senate Republican Majority Leader Arlan B. Meekhof explained the vote this way: 'The Senate adopted the policy to preserve the ability for this legislature and future legislatures to amend the statute to better fit our state and our economy.' And lawmakers did in fact later amend the legislation by voting to delay the minimum wage increase by nearly a decade, scrap future inflation adjustments and preserve a lower tipped minimum wage. Lawmakers also exempted employers with fewer than 50 employees from paid sick leave and scaled it back for everyone else. The groups behind the ballot measures fought back in the courts, arguing that what lawmakers did violated the state Constitution. That took 'time, energy' and 'a considerable amount of resources,' Atkinson said. 'But we thought it was important to fight for the will of the people and direct democracy.' Last summer, it seemed they had finally won: The state supreme court found the Legislature had indeed violated the state Constitution and reinstated the original wage and sick leave measures. The new benefits were set to go into effect on Feb. 21. 'We were extremely hopeful,' Atkinson said. 'We were like, 'Great, on to the next fight.'' But the Legislature wasn't done intervening. An hour before midnight on Feb. 20, lawmakers passed bills to preserve a lower tipped minimum wage, delay implementation of paid sick leave, exempt young and temporary seasonal workers, reduce guaranteed unpaid time off for employees of small businesses and strip workers of the right to sue employers for violating the new rights. This time, nearly half of Democrats in both chambers joined with all Republicans to pass the measures, and Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed them into law. The governor had 'heard concerns about implementation of the new law,' according to a statement from spokesperson Stacey LaRouche, while the bill was under consideration, and supported 'a bipartisan deal that protects servers and wait staff, while also providing certainty to small businesses and helping Michigan remain competitive.' Business groups, particularly the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association, had lobbied hard for the tipped minimum wage changes. It was 'very clear' that lawmakers of both parties 'were being influenced by the business community,' Atkinson said. 'The restaurant industry did a very good job of manufacturing outrage.' Atkinson is frustrated that those tactics succeeded. 'Michigan is a place where we're known for workers' rights, and we had an opportunity to be a pretty big part of a larger movement to eliminate a sub-minimum wage, and we missed it,' she noted, referring to the lower wage employers can pay tipped employees. Having Democrats join in was even worse. 'When you see Democrats introducing legislation that's undermining workers' rights, it makes … an easier target for Republicans to do the same,' she said. 'It's really unfortunate that that came from members of a party that claims to be for workers' rights.' Copyright 2025 Capital & Main
