Governor Snyder ran as a conservative leaning technocrat, not a hard right ideologue. He had previously said that the issue was divisive and that he had no plans to sign a "right to work" bill.

This bill can't be repealed thru referendum because the Republicans were smart enough to attach an appropriations to it. Our constitution does not allow appropriations bills to be repealed via referendum. The only way to change this is to get rid of Snyder and a rather sizable number of Republicans in the 2014 election. But The North Remembers and I think people will be angry enough to do just that.

Ironically the proximate cause for all this may not have been anything in Michigan at all. Wisconsin Governor's Scott Walker's successful trimming of collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin worried Michigan union people so much so that they tried to amend the Constitution to place collective bargaining in it and not just take Snyder's word that he wouldn't do what Walker did.

Well Proposal 2 failed. So this right to work legislation, is by Snyder's own words something of a payback. Snyder evidently felt personally betrayed. And Republicans were emboldened by the failure of Prop 2.

BTW Scott Walker doesn't support right to work legislation...