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Support for Proposition 32 -- a Republican-funded proposal that would essentially bar union workers from having a voice in politics ? is steadily dropping.

Last week tens of thousands of young undocumented immigrants flooded churches, law offices and help centers across the county to begin applying for relief from deportation. Thanks to an executive order by President Barack Obama those who entered the United States illegally as children can now defer deportation and work for at least two years.

High demand. Fewer staff. Low wages. Sound familiar? Bradly Harmon is helping his local learn to fight back.

Nearly 700,000 Michigan citizens petitioned to put the right to collectively bargain on the November ballot. But despite collecting twice the number of signature needed, the state won’t let the people vote.

Why? This week the Michigan Board of State Canvassers deadlocked – along party lines – to keep the measure off the Nov. 6 ballot. The 2-2 vote comes less than two weeks after Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette – acting on the request of GOP Governor Rick Snyder who opposes the initiative to enshrine collective bargaining rights in the state’s constitution -- issued an erroneous legal opinion to kill the proposal.

Now it heads to the state’s Supreme Court:

Andrew Nickelhoff, a Detroit attorney representing Protect Our Jobs, said after the meeting in the Capitol he was going straight to the Michigan Supreme Court about two blocks away to file a legal action requesting the court to order the board to certify the ballot measure. He acknowledged his group faces “a tight timetable” because elections officials say they need the issue resolved by Aug. 27 to have time to prepare and print the ballots. That’s one reason the group wants to bypass the Michigan Court of Appeals and go straight to the Supreme Court.