When asked, workers choose freedom, even union workers. In Frank Luntz’ recent poll, 80% of union members chose the Right to Work which allows individuals to freely choose whether or not to belong or pay fees to…
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Press Release: Home-Care Providers Take Case Challenging State Unionization Scheme to Federal Appeals Court Right to Work Foundation assists home-based personal care providers pushed into union ranks against their will Chicago, IL (December 13, 2010) – A group of home-based personal care providers have filed a federal appeal against Governor Pat Quinn and union officials for their agreement to force Illinois’s home-based personal care providers under unwanted union boss control. With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, the personal care providers filed their appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit after a district court judge ruled against them. The appeal stems from a class-action lawsuit filed by the providers after Quinn signed an executive order designating 4,500 home-based personal care providers who care for individuals with disabilities as “public employees” and susceptible to unwanted union boss political “representation.” Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union bosses have been competing to force their monopoly control over the workers, even having out-of-state union organizers making “home visits” attempting to organize the providers through coercive “card check” unionization tactics. Not coincidentally, Quinn received the SEIU union bosses’ political endorsement and support during his closely-contested primary campaign earlier this year. Quinn’s executive order mirrored one issued by disgraced former-Governor Rod Blagojevich, later codified, in which over 20,000 personal care providers were designated as state workers for the purpose of granting union bosses monopoly “representation” and forced dues privileges over them. Quinn’s executive order expanded Blagojevich’s to cover the additional 4,500 providers who were not included in the first executive order.
Kyle Olsen takes an in-depth look at union disclosure forms for the Illinois Teacher's union and finds why the union bosses hate to disclose their spending orgy to union members. The Illinois Education Association is reeling from a very bad 2009-2010 fiscal year, caused in no small part by the union’s exorbitant expenditures on parties, meetings and salaries, Education Action Group recently found. In its annual LM-2 report, on file with the United States Department of Labor, the IEA reveals that it started the previous fiscal year with $2.6 million in net assets, and just 12 months later is in the hole by $11.8 million. A number of factors apparently contributed to the union’s sudden financial plunge. It’s pension liability for its employees skyrocketed over the past year, from $8.2 million in 2009 to $26.6 million in 2010. But the report also reveals that IEA officials spent freely on salaries and benefits for high-ranking staff members, as well as social events the union hosted in Chicago, San Diego and New Orleans.
Andy Stern is living in a world of delusion. According to the soon-to-be retiring union boss and President Obama confidant, forced unionism “is the greatest middle-class, job-creating mechanism that we have ever had in America that doesn’t…
Illinois Gov. Quinn’s and the SEIU’s embarrassing defeat in their effort to unionize home health care workers has emboldened Maryland health care workers who face the same fate, thanks to Gov. Martin O’Malley. A government bargaining order O’Malley signed with…
Michelle Malkin has more the effort of the SEIU home invasion in Illinois — made possible by their political cronies in the government. And remember, it is ALL about forcing these folks to pay union dues – that is…
The intrepid Michelle Malkin writes about a parental revolt against the SEIU’s attempt to unionize home health care workers. Of course, this power grab was facilitated by the Illinois Gov. and big union tool Pat Quinn: Last month, I noted the appalling…
If the Illinois Governorship is for sale, big labor is buying. In return for signing a $31 billion capital bill, big labor bosses have wrapped their arms around incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn.
Chicago’s Fran Eaton calls the effects of forced unionism as she sees it: Just when that house begins to teeter is when the bullies really get mean and desperate. We’re seeing that now at the federal level. Unions want to…