Sunday, January 19, 2014

This is a national disgrace-----Illinois home-care workers should not be forced into unions

George Will: Illinois home-care workers should not be forced into unions - The Washington Post:
"On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether the Illinois government’s policy of herding home-care workers into unions violates the workers’ First Amendment rights.
It does.
.....The state government gave the SEIU and a rival union the names and addresses of all the freshly minted government employees.Pam Harris, who is suing to get Illinois’s system declared unconstitutional, gets a modest stipend from Medicaid to support her care for her disabled son. 
She remembers a young SEIU employee coming to her door to say just sign the card “so my boss knows I spoke to you.” 
A majority of caregivers in one Illinois program chose the SEIU.

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