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Posted on 04/30/2010 11:37:51 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Perhaps sensing its future may truly be at stake, representatives of the Michigan Home Based Child Care Council (MHBCCC) complied with lawmakers' requests for comment at a legislative committee meeting. It was at least the fourth attempt since last fall to get the MHBCCC on the record about its role in the stealth unionization of Michigan's 40,000-plus home-based day care owners and providers.
Sen. Bill Hardiman (R-Kentwood), chair of the appropriations subcommittee on human services, has been particularly interested in hearing from the council. He and his counterpart in the Michigan House tried to eliminate funding for the MHBCCC in the current state budget, yet the Mackinac Center discovered the council continued to operate in spite of these efforts.
Tuesday's committee hearing gave senators a chance to quiz the MHBCCC about its purpose, its creation through an interlocal agreement between the Department of Human Services and Mott Community College, and the big question: the council's relationship with the Child Care Providers-Together Michigan or CCPTM, the so-called "day care union."
(Excerpt) Read more at michigancapitolconfidential.com ...
Larry Simmons doesn’t sound like the type who should be trusted with any money, let alone running anything. I see Lisa Walraven also turns up again.
http://steveharrypublicpolicy.com/mhbcccboardmembers.htm
Larry L. Simmons, Sr. (Chairman) - According to this site, the Rev. Larry L. Simmons of Detroit is the manager of Corporate Detroit Magazine, a quarterly, and is the assistant pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church in Detroit. From 1985 to 1993, he was the political director for Coleman A. Young, the longtime mayor of Detroit. And this from the Detroit Free Press, 11/16/2007: Two longtime aides to Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano resigned Thursday amid an internal investigation into whether the Department of Technology director gave a contract to a friend who didn’t do the work required . . . Technology Director Larry Simmons, the former political chief for Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, resigned over questions about a contract given to Judy Bryant to work on department organization . . . “A review of operations within the Wayne County Department of Technology has revealed process and oversight shortcomings that should have been handled better by the department,” Simmons said in a statement. Simmons, whose $142,500 annual salary made him at one time the third highest-paid member of the Ficano administration, also is pastor at Baber Memorial AME Church in Detroit.
no accountability
Otherwise, don't accept the subsidy and there'll be no "forcing" about it.
Do you think it’s OK to force all contractors to unionize if the state pays for the contract? After all the subsidy you speak of actually goes to the person needing care and they pay the caregiver as a contractor.
We have one Michigan Freeper here who was forced into this union for caring for her own disabled son.
The last story I had read about it was a person running a daycare that acceptd a subsidy directly from the sate. It is the state's fault for signing contracts mandating they use union labor (including forcing the contractors to unionize). It is the voters' fault for electing these people to office. I didn't mean to make it sound as if I was panting with a broad brush. From the previous two stories I read, it was people running a daycare (babysiting service) from their homes. It sounded as if the parents were paying for services and the proprietor was accepting a subsidy from the state, but not wanting the strings attached to the "state's money."
...the Michigan Home Based Child Care Council (MHBCCC) complied with lawmakers' requests for comment... It was at least the fourth attempt since last fall to get the MHBCCC on the record about its role in the stealth unionization of Michigan's 40,000-plus home-based day care owners and providers. Sen. Bill Hardiman (R-Kentwood), chair of the appropriations subcommittee on human services, has been particularly interested in hearing from the council. He and his counterpart in the Michigan House tried to eliminate funding for the MHBCCC in the current state budget, yet the Mackinac Center discovered the council continued to operate in spite of these efforts. Tuesday's committee hearing gave senators a chance to quiz the MHBCCC about its purpose, its creation through an interlocal agreement between the Department of Human Services and Mott Community College, and the big question: the council's relationship with the Child Care Providers-Together Michigan or CCPTM, the so-called "day care union."Governor Jennie Grandtheft sez she's on Obama's short list for the Supreme Court.
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