By Mark Mix, The Washington Times
Last month, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law a bill that designates home-based child care and personal care providers, many of whom are self-employed business owners, as state workers solely for the purpose of forcing them into union ranks.
By Ed Ring, Cal Watchdog
California’s November 2012 statewide ballot included Proposition 32, the “Stop Special Interest Money Now” initiative. Among the provisions included in this campaign finance reform measure was the requirement that public sector unions obtain permission from each member prior to using a portion of their dues to support political campaigns.
By Kevin Mooney, The Washington Examiner
Teachers who are not keen on the idea of paying for political activism that runs counter to their personal policy preferences have a significant stake in a legal challenge filed by the Center for Individual Rights (CIR). The case will very likely be decided before the U.S. Supreme Court where Terry Pell, the CIR president, likes his chances.
By Anthony Riedel, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
A group of Minnesota home-based childcare providers have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new law that seeks to forcibly unionize the state’s home-based childcare providers.
By Marta H. Mossburg, The Baltimore Sun
Maryland’s Fair Share Act is to fair what Liberace is to understated.
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
A former Penn Service Line, Inc. truck driver/laborer has won a substantial federal settlement from a Pennsylvania-based construction company and a West Virginia union after the company and union violated his rights and illegally seized union dues from his paychecks for the union’s political action committee (PAC).
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.
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Three Harford County emergency responders have filed charges against a local union for violating their rights and illegally demanding that they join the union.
kstp.com
The day care unionization bill is about to become law in Minnesota. But the battle over its impact is far from over. And now, opponents are warning that unionization could freeze some children out of certain day cares.
By Amanda Becker, Thomson Reuters News & Insight
A group of California public school teachers has sued their state and national teachers’ unions, arguing that forcing them to pay union dues violates their right to free speech, in what could become a test case.