By Chad Livengood Detroit News Lansing Bureau Comments Lansing â€" Both sides of the bitterly divisive collective bargaining ballot initiative read voters' defeat of Proposal 2 differently Wednesday, with business groups feeling emboldened to push right-to-work legislation in Michigan. Union leaders denied the initiative was designed as a preemptive strike against the state Legislature passing a bill making union membership optional. "We weren't trying to be proactive about anything," said Steve Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association, the state's largest teacher union. "We were just trying to fix the damage that had been done." Business leaders, who spent $31 million to help...
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