By Mark Peters and Kris Maher, The Wall Street Journal
Minnesota is set to allow unions to organize workers who provide home day-care services and other home care, giving organized labor a rare victory at the state level.
By Gary Gross, Examiner.com
During Sunday morning’s debate on the DFL’s childcare unionization legislation, Rep. Mary Franson, R-Alexandria, read from a legal opinion from the law firm Seaton, Peters & Revnew.
Sauk Center Herald
State Senator Sandy Pappas (DFL, District 65) may need to rethink her definition of “Minnesota Nice” after this week.
By Editorial Board, Star Tribune
Don’t buy the malarkey coming from DFL legislators poised to deliver one of the most sought-after items on Big Labor’s wish list: unionizing Minnesota child care providers.
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.
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.
By Jarrett Skorup, Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Today’s Michigan Capitol Confidential article is about aleaked document from the SEIU on how the union hopes to continue the “dues skim” against home-based caregivers. That story is interesting, but there is an even more significant issue regarding how the union sees the whole unionization scheme.
By Jack Spencer, Michigan Capitol Confidential
The union that took more than $34 million from the Medicaid checks of the elderly and disabled in Michigan before the scheme officially ended this year, wants those workers — and their money — back in.
By Brian Bakst, The Journal
Sitting side by side before state lawmakers, Minnesota Orchestra horn player Brian Jensen and third-generation sugar worker Becki Jacobson couldn’t have come from much different worlds. But they had something in common: both had gone through lengthy labor lockouts, and both were asking the state to make unemployment benefits considerably more generous.