No state in modern times has transitioned from a worker-freedom state to one that forces workers to join a union and pay dues to labor bosses. All of the momentum across the country in the last two decades has been in the opposite direction: allowing workers the right to choose a union — or not. That’s why what happened last week in Lansing, Michigan, is such a tragic setback for workers’ rights and for the economic competitiveness of the state where Henry Ford rolled off the assembly lines of the iconic Model T some 100 years ago. Thanks to a corrupt deal between the labor bosses, the Democra…