Author: serpnames

Big Labor’s agenda is to force as many workers into a union as possible.  They know more union members means more union dues.  And more union dues means Big Labor can spend heavily to elect politicians who support this anti-worker, anti-jobs agenda.

And Big Labor will stop at nothing.  United Auto Workers President Bob King is on the attack after the Michigan Department of Human Services announced an end to the unionization of home day-care providers.

But what is most striking is that workers were vocal about the fact that they never received the benefits for the union dues that were docked from their paychecks.  Another stunning revelation that Big Labor is more focused on stockpiling their campaign coffers than helping the workers they claim they represent.

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United Auto Workers President Bob King called the end of unionization of Michigan’s subsidized home-based child-care providers an “attack on working poor,” despite workers’ claims they never received benefits for the union dues that were docked from their subsidy checks.

Last week, the state Department of Human Services announced an end to the state’s agreement with Mott Community College that in 2006 created the Michigan Home Based Child Care Council, the agency whose job was to negotiate for the state with the child-care providers’ union. Back then, the UAW and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees worked together to form a new union, Child Care Providers Together Michigan, which represented child-care providers.

After March 18, union dues will no longer be collected from in-home day-care providers. The union agreement took dues from the subsidy checks of providers serving low-income families. Dues already collected have been passed on to the union, which means the state won’t be able to recoup them, state officials said.

In 2008, Big Labor spent millions to elect their political allies in an effort to force unionization on workers via the misleadingly named Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act.  But as CNN notes, it hasn’t yield many friends.

CNN:

As Barack Obama stood on that frigid inaugural stage in 2009, labor leaders could envisage the glorious future awaiting them. Here, at last, was a President determined to help unions rebuild their sagging ranks by supporting a “card check” bill that would change the way unions are allowed to organize workers. Here was a President who openly criticized fellow Democrat Bill Clinton for signing the North American Free Trade Agreement. And here was a President who would put government health care for the uninsured at the center of his agenda.

Two years later card check is dead, Obama is out promoting free-trade deals, and his health care reform plan — passed without a government option — faces an uncertain future in the courts. And now a costly new front has opened in labor’s struggles: the states, where budget-cutting governors are targeting union salaries, benefits, and even collective-bargaining rights.

Not even the most union-friendly President in three decades can soften this harsh political terrain — a problem sure to vex his 2012 reelection bid.

Unions spent $80 million on behalf of Obama and other Democrats in 2008. Combined with a sharp increase in direct contributions to campaigns, this independent money gave union-backed candidates a big edge, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Now, even as union membership continues to decline — reducing the member dues available to siphon into political campaigns — labor is being forced to spend millions to defend its ground at the state and local levels. That means less money available for the President and his allies in 2012.

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