ChildcareFreedom.org
Quietly and in private, Governor Dayton today signed SF778, the bill designed to unionize home-based childcare providers and transfer up to $8 million a year to AFSCME, a government employee union. That new revenue stream the unions are banking on comes at the expense of low-income families receiving government assistance to help pay for childcare.
By Jim Carlton, The Wall Street Journal
A health-care workers union plans a two-day strike starting Tuesday at the University of California’s five medical centers, prompting officials at the nationally renowned hospitals to cancel hundreds of surgeries and chemotherapy treatments.
KTVU.com
State labor officials will move to limit the number of University of California medical center employees who can go out on strike next week at facilities including UC San Francisco, university officials said Friday.
By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times
Thirteen people were arrested Wednesday at the UC regents meeting during a sit-down protest by healthcare workers threatening to strike at the system’s medical centers.
By Jim Ragsdale, Star Tribune
The fight over unionizing in-home child-care providers kept the Minnesota Senate up through the night, as supporters and opponents debated whether the small, private businesses should have a right to vote on unionization.
By Jonathan Blake, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
The extraordinary union power grab underway at the State Capitol is breathtaking, especially in light of the prevailing trend of Midwest states enacting positive, taxpayer-friendly collective bargaining reforms.
Pioneer Press
The 2013 labor wish list at the state Capitol includes a measure to allow some home-care workers to bargain collectively with the state. Those who care for young and vulnerable Minnesotans deserve our respect. It’s important work they do, but union representation isn’t a good idea for the workers or for those they care for. We join the skeptics who doubt the proposal will bring us closer to what we all want: good care for those who need it, a good deal for taxpayers and stable costs.
The inmates have taken over the institution! At least that is the story of one detention center located in Baltimore City, in part aided by new rules lobbied for by public employee unions. Not only has recent news about one inmate fathering the children of several corrections officers come to light, but the inmate also apparently used sexual favors for leverage to smuggle drugs and amass power inside the prison walls.
Star Tribune
A twin drive to create new unions for personal care attendants and home day-care owners stalled Monday on a tie vote in a Minnesota Senate committee.
The Wall Street Journal
It’s corporate proxy season, which can only mean more political pressure on companies to stop spending money on politics. This year the plan of Big Labor and the George Soros-funded Center for Political Accountability is pressuring business to disclose all spending related to politics as well as to lobby the Securities and Exchange Commission to force companies to do so.