Unions, Democrats Push National Campaign to Force Daycare Workers into Unions

Unions, Democrats Push National Campaign to Force Daycare Workers into Unions


The Connecticut state Senate has passed a law that will somehow force a segment of daycare workers to join a union or at least be forced to pay union dues !

Apparently those workers receive some public money.

The union is the infamous and controversial S.E.I.U. (Service Employees International Union)

After six hours of debate, a bill passed the Connecticut state Senate on a party line vote which will force daycare workers and personal care attendants, who receive some payment through public programs, to pay union dues. The bill followed two executive orders by Gov. Dannel Malloy (Democrat-Working Families Party) that forced a card-check type of voting system on these workers. Daycare and home health care attendants will now be members of Service Employees International Union SEIU

Noth'n new ?

Two years ago, the New York Post reported that the United Federation of Teachers(UFT) would receive millions of dollars in union dues if New York lawmakers approved a provision in then-Democratic Gov. David Paterson’s budget that would force daycare workers to pay union dues. With help from ACORN, the UFT had added 28,000 city daycare workers to its rolls and negotiated a contract promising health benefits and improved wages at the expense of taxpayers. Regarding the history of this effort, the UFT website states:

Our first efforts were to demonstrate to the state elected officials that childcare providers have problems and there is strong support for forming a union. We proved this by collecting more than 6,000 union card signatures of the 32,000 child care workers citywide in a three-month period. With the help of the UFT and ACORN, we lobbied the state legislature to pass a law stating that childcare providers have the right to form a union…

But ...

UFT’s efforts were halted, however, when former governor of New York, Republican George Pataki, vetoed the legislation, leading UFT to make an even bigger push to get these workers unionized:

Fortunately for us, we have formidable allies that support us in our organizing efforts. Thanks to the invaluable support of the UFT, ACORN, Working Families Party, and local ministers and members of the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, we were able to get the override from the Senate. While we wait patiently for the Assembly to reconvene and decide on the bill, we are in the process of collecting the necessary 15,000 signatures needed on union cards, which would allow us to legally become a union.

Is this a big "Problem" or not ?

Oh it's not a problem. No problem at all.....Unless you're a parent who is already robbing Peter to pay Paul and their both calling their own collection agencies as we're all talking about it.

I'll bet parents across the nation would love them to death if they'd wait until after the economy stops getting WORSE before bringing increased wages and costs to yet another industry. In order to help the few at the worst imaginable time, this will badly hurt the many who flat out have no other option for kids during the day......yet really can't afford rates as they are now.

...and no one is really going to suggest an industry gets unionized and DOESN'T raise rates and fees are they? Why Unionize at all if it doesn't mean more for the workers? Well.. in Day Care, there is only one place for that cash to come from and there isn't even a middleman to hand out vasoline.

Interesting. Forcing people to have to work to pay someone else. I thought the left was against that? Huh...guess not.

/TOA

This is exactly why "Right to work" was created.

The face fascism at work.