The morning after Mitch Daniels signed Indiana Right to Work into law it’s uncertain if or how Big Labor will screw up Super Bowl events in response. One thing is certain, with Right to Work rumblings now in at least three surrounding states (Kentucky, Michigan and Minnesota) we won’t be rescued from union Right to Work hysteria any time soon. “It’s a union-busting tactic all the way,” said protesting carpenter Mike Coomes. “You just create more poverty. They want us to go back to slavery. We’ve worked 150 years to get here and they wiped it out in one vote.” And it borders on unconscionable how Big Labor is whipping up the membership into a froth about a measure that only requires union locals make member service a top priority just like any other business. But never mind that. According to the unions, Indiana Republican lawmakers just blew us all back to the Stone Age. And how important is any sporting event when faced with social justice Armageddon? 
“If we shut down this whole city, I don’t think it would matter,” said Andy Carr, a union carpenter. “People died for what we’re having taken away. Those things weren’t given to us.” Already thousands of bussed in unionistas have swarmed Super Bowl Village chanting and carrying signs alongside Occupiers who object to all displays of expendable income that isn’t theirs. Indianapolis police said they have been preparing for massive protests this weekend since Occupy fever spread last fall. And while they are getting noticed, protestors may not be winning many hearts and minds. “I don’t make $30 an hour,” one man shouted at passing protesters. “There should be a designated area where they can walk instead of getting in everybody’s way like this,” said Dean Cook. Another visitor Sandra Migherey thought it was “crummy. Let us have a nice holiday without this. This is big, the Super Bowl. And then we have to listen to this.” Nearby, union boilermaker Pete Etoler drew a line between protesting politicians and disrupting the highest-profile event in Indiana history. “I think it will hurt our cause,” he said. “We’re trying to build up Indiana and bring businesses here. That won’t help.” But according to Jeff Harris, spokesman for the Indiana AFL-CIO, the Super Bowl is nothing but “the ultimate party for the 1%.” However he and other union leaders have stated that while they will likely be there to annoy the hell out of Village visitors on game day, they will do nothing to disrupt the multi-millionaires on the playing field. “These guys have worked all their lives and this is their only shot,” said Pete Rimsans, executive director of the Indiana State Building and Construction Trades Council. “We don’t want to do anything that could ruin that.” Player Association president DeMaurice Smith, who received a $1M bonus from the union for negotiating the current NFL contract, added this: “If folks in Indiana and that great legislature want to pass a bill that really is something called “right to work” have a constitutional amendment that guarantees every citizen a job.”
