Workers’ revolt against Big Labor home invasion scheme continues
Just say no
In October, I published a special report on how unions are extending their power grab into the private residences of home health care providers — and how parents in Illinois fought back. NLRB recess appointee and former SEIU lawyer Craig Becker played a key role in pushing the Big Labor home invasion scheme, which is a desperate attempt to shore up shrinking membership rolls. The intrepid parents took on SEIU and AFSCME and won. It’s a battle taking place across the country.
As I noted back in October, another of those battlegrounds is Michigan, where the unions have targeted home-based child day care providers.
The case is now headed to court.
Peggy Mashke tends to 12 children for 12 hours a day at her home, so she was surprised to get a letter welcoming her to the United Auto Workers union.
“I thought it was a joke,” said Mashke, 50, of northern Michigan’s Ogemaw County. “I work out of my home. I’m not an auto worker. How can I become a member of the UAW? I didn’t get it.”
Willing or not, Mashke and 40,000 other at-home providers are members of a labor partnership that represents people across Michigan who watch children from low-income families. Two unions receive 1.15 percent of the state subsidies granted to those providers, or more than $1 million a year.
Mashke has given up about $100 this year, and while she says it’s not a huge amount of money, she’s among a small group of home-based providers suing in federal court to break free from organized labor.
“It’s the principle. It’s my constitutional rights,” she said.
Amen. Both the National Right to Work Foundation and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy are challenging the scheme.
It’s the tip of the iceberg — as a union goon himself admitted:
A fear that the “stealth unionization” of home-based day care workers could just be the start of a bigger effort was acknowledged in court on Tuesday by a union lawyer.
Patrick Wright, senior legal counsel for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, had said months ago that doctors that accept Medicaid, grocers that take food stamps and landlords that take housing assistance could be the next groups targeted in state efforts to unionize anyone who gets state subsidies.
The Mackinac Center has a lawsuit that it has appealed to the state Supreme Court about the state unionizing roughly 40,000 home-based day care workers. The state also unionized another 40,000 home workers for elderly and disabled. Both groups were unionized because they accepted state subsidies for low-income clients.
The issue came up in court when the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation was in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan on Tuesday to keep its suit from being dismissed. The National Right to Work is representing home-based day care workers on the national level.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Jonker asked union lawyer John West if the state could unionize doctors in a similar way to the day care workers if the doctors accepted Medicaid.
West, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, told the judge at first it was a “slippery slope.”
But shortly later, West told the judge that unionization of any group that accepted state subsidies would be within the state’s authority if it had “added value” to the state or the public’s interest.
West said if the state could show added “value,” then “that could be imposed on anyone.”
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power hungry bastards
So now it’s Eminent Domain of mind and body, not just property anymore! Welcome to the Borg Collective, resistance is futile!
the cancer known as unions needs to be eradicated once and for all.
Union=Mafia. They both require a cut of the action.
ALL unions should be banned. They are effectively criminal enterprises working as political arms of statist Democrats. Shut them all down immediately if not sooner.
Dont use outside daycare and raise your own children, problem solved. Please note no specification of gender roles in my statement.
The draft has made a comeback, and of course it is brought to you by the party of the little guy, democrats. I too remember my notice welcoming me to the army in 1971.
How those letters began:
How they continue today:
There is NO LAW that says you MUST join a union. They must fight this like crazy. And the whole country must stand with them. This crap has to stop NOW.
Hmm. People have to be forced to join unions.
That speaks volumes about what the unions do ‘for’ the workers.
Unions add no value whatsoever for the worker. All they are is an agency who’s purpose is to transfer money to the democrat party, in this case, state and federal money.
Honestly, in this day and age of the 21st Century if your job is one that needs “collective bargaining” rather than you negotiating directly with management on your own behalf, it’s a job that is going to be replaced by robots or illegal aliens soon.
Actually there is, it’s called the Wagner Act. In non right to work states, if there is a union at your workplace you must join it (or pay dues to it) whether you want to or not. This is called a “closed shop”.
Unions are the only agency other than the government that has the authority to tax payroll.
Are the daycare centers outside the homes under Union control?
I’m telling you, the unions must be shut down. This is a huge and dangerous fight. And our own POS POTUS is in their back pocket, giving them OUR money as payback for getting him elected. This will be in the history books, folks, and Obama will be in those books as the first completely treasonous POTUS to go to prison. The can’t end well for him. How many laws has he broken???? Too many to even count. Who will prosecute??? The next Attorney General, once we take back our country. “The days are dwindling down to a precious few…September…November.”
And the power to tax is the power that is most often abused!
I wasn’t aware of that! I guess the only solution is to not work at union-run companies. I never belonged to a union, thank God. The unions used to be valuable to our country. Now, they are destroying it.
THey’ve committed murder/suicide of the steel industry.
The auto industry here is in it’s death throes because of the unions.
Mexican ports get a lot of business because of the Longshoreman’s unions.
What’s next?
Is that the sound of jackboots that I hear coming?
On September 13th, 2010 at 9:50 am, happy2behere said:
What will happen is that many daycare providers will stop accepting children from low-income households who receive subsidies (the people who can least afford to quit). Those who can’t afford to pay out of pocket will have fewer choices. Same with the doctors and Medicare patients, grocers taking food stamps, etc.
The benefits all go to the unions. The costs in dollars go to the taxpayers. And the costs in reduced quality and choice go to the poorest members of society — of course, many of those collecting subsidies vote Democrat, so from that perspective, it’s hard to feel too sorry for them.
I come from a strong Union family. (United Mine Workers) the unions have had a place and time. At one point they were essential, in my opinion, to making things better for workers, and were desperately needed. But that was then. Now they are a power unto themselves, and have forgotten there purpose. When that happens, it is time for them to go. They do not care about making things better, only the acquisition of power.
Good for these folks that were able to slap down the purple monster. Hopefully it is the beginning of the end for these thugs.
Return to 1776
His time is almost up!
On September 13th, 2010 at 10:33 am, happyscrapper said:
Some years ago, I worked in management (non-union) for a company with many union employees. I’d gone there from a small non-union office where we pretty much did whatever needed doing. One day as I made photocopies, the machine ran out of toner. I asked a fellow employee where to find more toner.
Fellow employee — Oh, you have to call maintenance.
Me — I’m in a hurry. I’ll just do it myself.
Fellow employee — No, you have to call maintenance.
Me — This is not rocket science. I can change toner in a copier — I’ve been doing it for years.
Fellow employee — No, you CAN’T put in new toner. You are not a member of the union.
I went to another floor and found another copier.
The only way to stop this is a National Right to Work law applicable to all 50 states.
I work for a government entity here in California. The union is SEIU, which I loathe. I am not a member of the union but am foreced by law to pay $1,200 each year to them in “agency fees”.
It’s legalized extortion.
Unions are no longer “the cure.” They have become a cancer. Hearing the word, UNION, your hackles should stand on end. It exists not for the enrichment of it’s general membership, rather it is there to enrich it’s generals.
Unions, if left to metastisize, will be the death of American enterprise, and ultimately to America herself. Perhaps that is why the annointed one is, and has been, in bed with them…just one more step in the “total transformation” of the United States, into the Union of American Socialist States.
that’s about right, the unions in America outlived themselves decades ago…the evidence is with union elections in businesses, the membership is dropping. It’s time to boot ‘em out, now! I was a union employee for a number of years and disliked it everyday.
Onetime I got chastised six ways to Sunday by a shop steward for changing out a burnt out light bulb on the food processing line where I was stationed. Apparantly that was the domain of the electrician. IBEW was going to slay my firstborn if it ever happened again.
I asked the shop steward if I should call the electrician to have him put the burnt out bulb back, he just stormed off without a word.
What is sad about this is the ones that will end up suffering is the ones that need help the most. As stated earlier, this will lead to more daycares saying no to kids who receive a subsidy, more doctors saying no to Medicaid patients, more leasing agents saing no to housing sudbsidy reciepients, etc.
What is worse is that those who suffer the most will continue to vote Dem as they have been told all their life that the evil Republicans will cut them off completly and leave them high and dry.
Shortly after I retired from the Army, I worked at the UPS hub in Louisville, KY, as “seaonal help” leading up to Christmas. We were told that we would be paying union dues because it was a “union shop.” Then there was the day shortly before Christmas when they made the announcement that the union was distributing turkeys in the parking lot to all the workers. Turned out “all the workers” didn’t include us “seasonal help” who were paying union dues. I went around shaking the hands of the few full-time employees who were working the graveyard shift with us telling them to enjoy the turkeys that we had paid for. The union steward for that shift told me I had a bad attitude.
Not surprisingly, I wasn’t offered a full-time position at the end of the Christmas rush. My late father-in-law, a dyed in the wool Teamster union man, told me that the UPS union’s turkey giveaway was “chickensh!t.”
I determined then and there that I wouldn’t work for anyone where I had to join a union or pay union dues if I didn’t.
ECS
Michigan my Michigan-DETROIT the once beautiful ‘Parlor City” is now a literal DUMP!
Why-because of welfare-(socialism) for 60 + years and the unions…
The unions were started for the workers ‘good’ and became top heavy–
Don’t get me started on the governing bodies in MI–
C-CS
…”seasonal help”…
I have a question. How does being forced to join a labor union against your consent “add value?”
If even one citizen in this country has a right, then all citizens have the same right. So when I hear the unions say a specific state is not “right to work” I go nuts. All states are right to work.
Check the SCOTUS decision Kent v Dulles. The court ruled that the right to work may be more important than the right to free speech.
As opposed to the bad attitude of the union that says seasonal help doesn’t get bonuses, even though they are forced to pay dues.
Typical. Liberal. Hypocrites.
We are the Borg.
We will add your distinctiveness to our own.
Your life as you have known it is now over.
Resistance if futile.
Notice how it never occurs to the television bad guys to ask you whether you want to sign on. How is being forcibly “assimilated” by the union thugs any different?
Wow, no wonder my posts are riddled with errors, until you corrected yourself, I read your original post as fine. I had to go back and double check. It’s amazing how what you type and what your mind sees can be two distinct things.
Anyone else notice that every single person in the photo above is an obese minority woman? Talk about a Political Correctness overload!
Did you factor in all the anchor babies?
Must be the Rosie O’Donnell fan club/union.
for the smokers…
and you all let them do it!
Let’s apply anti-trust legislation to the unions. Make them compete for customers the way businesses do and watch their influence wane.
Hey it’s the Marlboro woMan!
jus’ sayin’
Sigh, guilty on that count! If only smokers were able to keep the smoke to themselves in public, I just might be more sympathic to them.: )
and if they were courteous enough to obey “non-smoking” rules on the Metro platforms here in Los Angeles, not stick those cancer sticks out the car window, and flick the ashes and butts out on the street and sidewalk – they’d get more support from me. Too many scofflaws ruin the reputation of polite and law obiding smokers!
rant over and out : )
I just learned of another client whose employees successfully decertified the SEIU in July. Fragile victory at a single vote, but a victory nonetheless. People are getting tired of the shakedown.
Thanks for reporting, Michelle!
The only thing worse than a Democrat trying to make a dead fish smell good is a unionist trying to revive it.
next thing you’ll be telling me is that they also cause global warming…
Exactly. Kind of like scented feminine ‘hygiene’ products.
Heh, you never disappoint, my petite coquette!
I’m sure that’s the only reason I’m let stay in this forum…
Not at all, that’s an unfounded liberal myth…..
…….cigarette smoke actually contributes to global cooling!
Gee, why doesn’t congress just pass a law to deduct union dues from every pay check. It is all about the dues and not about the representation. Forcing people to join what they don’t want to join….hummmmm…. resembles islam.
If nothing else, unions have mastered the art of self-preservation. This scheme shows that there is nothing they will not stoop to to save their worthless hides.
They may not be forced to join on their own, but what does it matter if the union thugs make a deal with the state and their union dues is withheld from their subsidy payments before they ever see it?
As it is, some have commented in other news articles about supporting the unionization claiming they get their checks faster if there is a problem.
How about politicians requiring state workers do their job which would negate the need then for a union?
How about lower taxes so people don’t have to work two or three jobs and being forced to put their kids into daycare?
Others have commented that their forced unionization has caused their monthly subsidies to actually decrease.
Hmmm. Maybe voting Democrat wasn’t such a good idea.
I still think they should use Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals against the union and the state. Make so many daily demands of them the union gets tired of them.
Most of the seasonal help folks, unlike myself, were people who really needed the work. I’m sure a free turkey would have meant the world to them.
Me? We shopped at the Commissary. I was looking for something to do that wouldn’t interfere with my competitive shooting schedule while I looked for a “retirement job.”
ECS
Let me get this straight. Money is forceably taken from people and given to an organization that doesn’t represent them. I think I’ve heard about that causing problems before.
I’ve found some tea, may we dump it?
As long as we can blame it on the Indians I’m good with it.
what if we blame moderate muslims?
That’s too inefficient. They should cut out the middle man and send it directly to the DNC.
You just cant do that in a FREE country
You got one of those lying around somewhere?
*sigh*
Are they moderate Indian muslims?
The picture on this post should be captioned “American Union of Fat Ladies”… pronounced awful.