 synder vs unions governorelect snyder is certainly spoiling for a fight one of his plans includes to comprehensively tackle the cost of public employee compensation and benefits at all levels of government school managers and others say the k12 districts could save more than 300 million annually by requiring some 200000 local school employees to pay 20percent of the cost of their health benefits reports peter luke of mlivecom one thing you don t do in michigan is tell unions to pay more for their insurance that would be like telling government motors to make more cars that people want not overpriced gocarts like the volt the teachers union will certainly tell the soontobe governor that saving money is all well and good when it doesn t involve them after all the michigan education association needs to keep giving their staff workers pay increase  priorities people  