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\nRegular Freedom@Work readers may recall that National Right to Work Foundation attorneys are duking it out<\/a> in federal court against government union lawyers over a blatant political payback scheme initiated by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.\u00a0 In order to thank union bosses for their political support, Granholm handed all home-based child-care providers who provide services to state-subsidized low-income families over to the United Autoworker (UAW) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) unions.\n<\/p>\n

\nGranholm, following the Rod Blagojevich blueprint of forced-union organizing, directed state officials to grease the skids for union organizers to railroad the child-care providers under union boss control.\n<\/p>\n

\nA courageous group of child-care workers asked National Right to Work for assistance, as some of them didn’t even know<\/a> they were being forced into union dues-paying ranks until it was too late, and they want nothing to do with the union.\u00a0 This courageous group of workers filed a federal class-action lawsuit to challenge Granholm’s scheme as a violation of their\u00a0Constitutional rights of free speech, free association, and their right to freely petition government for redress of grievances because, in effect, Governor Granholm is picking the lobbyists of Michigan\u2019s child-care providers.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn mid-July, Foundation attorneys appeared in federal court in Grand Rapids and convinced the judge to proceed with the child-care workers\u2019 case \u2014 despite state and union lawyers\u2019 multiple attempts to have the case dismissed.\u00a0 Wednesday, the Grand Rapids Press<\/i> called on<\/a> the federal judge to strike down the forced unionism scheme. As the Grand Rapids Press<\/i> explains:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tCovert unionization violates basic constitutional rights of freedom of association. The formation of the union for Michigan child care providers four years ago was downright sneaky and unfair. A lawsuit in federal court, brought by some affected child care providers, objects to their being shoe-horned into unions \u2014 and forced to pay dues \u2014 against their will. In that suit, and in one brought in state courts, the child care providers have legitimate grievances. They should prevail.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe forced-unionization travesty occurred primarily because Michigan Democrats wanted to help the UAW and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) pad their membership rolls.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2006, the UAW and AFSCME partnered to form a union called Child Care Providers Together Michigan. The union represents and draws dues from people who care for children from low-income families. The new union members belong either to the UAW or AFSCME, depending on the part of the state in which they live.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWhatever attempts were made to inform child care providers of the pending unionization must have been feeble at best. Only 15 percent of the state\u2019s 40,000 dues-paying providers took part in the vote-by-mail certification election that formed the union. Fully 92 percent of those voting said yes to the union. But they hardly constitute a valid majority of all the now-dues-paying members. Hopefully, the federal lawsuit will uncover how this election was allowed to occur.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe low-income clients provided a rationale \u2014 though not a legitimate one \u2014 for the forced unionization. The argument is that because providers take public money in state subsidies for those clients, they are therefore public employees. Union dues are taken directly from the state subsidies, money that should go toward child care. The UAW and AFSCME receive 1.15 percent of the subsidies, amounting to more than $1 million a year.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tTo suggest that government grants make providers public employees is an epic stretch. The child care workers are employed by the parents who hire them. At best, they contract with the government for child care services for low-income clients.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\t…The suit in federal court, filed by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, challenges the unionization as a violation of the workers\u2019 constitutional right to free association.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThat is the crucial point.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIndeed. And UAW and AFSCME union bosses are funneling millions of dollars to the campaigns of pro-forced unionism politicians (such as Governor Granholm), and now those same politicians are forcing Michigan’s home-care providers to pay to the tune of $3.7 million into union boss coffers. If Foundation litigators are successful in federal court, the outcome can have a far reaching, national impact in rolling back Big Labor\u2019s state-by-state push of forcing susceptible, unsuspecting home-care providers under union control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nRegular Freedom@Work readers may recall that National Right to Work Foundation attorneys are duking it out<\/a> in federal court against government union lawyers over a blatant political payback scheme initiated by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.\u00a0 In order to thank union bosses for their political support, Granholm handed all home-based child-care providers who provide services to state-subsidized low-income families over to the United Autoworker (UAW) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) unions.\n<\/p>\n

\nGranholm, following the Rod Blagojevich blueprint of forced-union organizing, directed state officials to grease the skids for union organizers to railroad the child-care providers under union boss control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nGrand Rapids Press Calls on Federal Judge to Strike Down "Forced-Unionization Travesty" - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/blog\/grand-rapids-press-calls-on-federal-judge-to-strike-down-forced-unionization-travesty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grand Rapids Press Calls on Federal Judge to Strike Down "Forced-Unionization Travesty" - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Regular Freedom@Work readers may recall that National Right to Work Foundation attorneys are duking it out in federal court against government union lawyers over a blatant political payback scheme initiated by Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm.\u00a0 In order to thank union bosses for their political support, Granholm handed all home-based child-care providers who provide services to state-subsidized low-income families over to the United Autoworker (UAW) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) unions. 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