Forced Unionization

[Alpha Mare]

Michelle Berry runs a day-care business out of her home in Flint, MI. She thought that she owned her own business, but Berry's been told she is now a government employee and union member. It's not voluntary. Suddenly, Berry and 40,000 other Michigan private day-care providers have learned that union dues are being taken out of the child-care subsidies the state sends them. The "union" is a creation of AFSCME, the government workers union, and the United Auto Workers.

Today the Department of Human Services siphons about $3.7 million in annual dues to the union….

Patrick Wright, a lawyer for the Macknac Center, says the union was forced on the women after a certification election conducted by mail in which only 6,000 day-care providers out of 40,000 voted. Wright told me his clients, like Berry, say they were "shocked" to learn they were suddenly in a union.

Mackinac sued Michigan on behalf of the day-care owners, but the case was dismissed. They have appealed. Neither Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, the Department of Human Services, nor the union would talk to me about this.

Fourteen states have now enabled home-based day-care providers to be organized into public-employee unions, affecting about 233,000 people.

http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/02/11/forced-unionization/

[thundley4]

I read about a retired man that volunteers as a crossing guard at a school that the union is complaining about. It was either Michigan or Wisconsin. He only works 1/2 hour a day.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

1. Unions contribute to politicians

2. Politicians pass laws forcing unionization

3. Unions collect compulsory dues

4. Rinse, repeat


What could possibly be wrong with that?

[thundley4]

1. Unions contribute to politicians

2. Politicians pass laws forcing unionization

3. Unions collect compulsory dues

4. Rinse, repeat


What could possibly be wrong with that?

Our local just up our dues by $2/month, and that was on top of taking 35cents/hour for pension maintenance.  All without a vote.  I wonder where they get the money to send out the fliers supporting Dem candidates?  I didn't give my permission to use my funds that way.