Homecare Providers Win Settlement with State to Permanently Stop Childcare Unionization Scheme
Right to Work Foundation attorneys continue federal class action lawsuit against union officials to recover millions in illegally confiscated dues
Lansing, MI (May 11, 2011) – With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, five homecare workers have reached a settlement with Governor Rick Snyder ensuring that Michigan will no longer be able to force home-based childcare providers into union ranks.
Carrie Schlaud, Diana Orr, Peggy Mashke, and Edward and Nora Gross originally filed a class-action suit against then-Governor Jennifer Granholm and a United Auto Workers (UAW) and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) coalition, the Child Care Providers Together Michigan (CCPTM) union, for designating homecare workers who accepted state assistance as state employees and forcing them to pay union dues and accept CCPTM “representation.”
Under Granholm’s direction, the Michigan Department of Human Services created an agency known as the Michigan Home Based Child Care Council to provide union officials with an entity to negotiate with as the homecare providers’ “management.” Working with the council, CCPTM operatives staged a union certification election to acquire monopoly bargaining privileges over Michigan homecare workers.
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JIM CLYBURN and NLRB
I am a resident in South Carolina and would like to know if anything can be done to get Jim Clyburn involved in this debate. He, as you know, is big in the House with Pelosi. Why can't SC light a fuse here by making him STICK up for the State that has employed him? Why haven't we heard anything from him on this? Always REMEMBER: SC is watching!
Thank you