Posted on 05/08/2010 1:07:51 PM PDT by erikm88
About 12,000 Missouri home-care attendants have joined the Missouri Home Care Union.
The union is affiliated with both the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Ballots were counted Wednesday in Jefferson City.
Home-care attendants help the elderly and disabled with bathing, cooking, shopping and transportation to medical appointments.
They save taxpayers millions of dollars a year by avoiding the cost of nursing home care, SEIU said.
Demand for them also is projected to skyrocket, with the number of elderly Missourians expected to rise by more than 70 percent in the next 20 years, the union said.
Missouri home-care workers voted to unionize last summer but the election results were tossed out by a judge after a lawsuit alleged procedural flaws.
Home-care workers in more than 10 other states – including California, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Washington – have also unionized.
Note: Do not retire in Missouri
Did they have a choice?
Here in Michigan the union claims a vote was taken and they claim they won but no one knew the vote was taking place and the counting was done secretly with no oversight.
A woman called Rush a few weeks ago about this. This is a forced thing. The “home-care” workers don’t have an option. It’s communism or the road.
It’s coming to Wisconsin too. Unions are pure scum of the Earth.
Check.
UNION THUGS taking ‘care” of GRANNY!! Not a good idea, especially when Obama gives them the signal to be the DEATH PANELS!
These union thugs very likely had no choice in this much like has happened in Michigan, California, Minnesota, and probably other states.
These are basically private contractors who have union dues taken against their will and they receive no union representation.
Who is going to do these things when the commie thugs get tired of changing diapers and go out on strike? Also, the CBO might want to recheck their ObamaCare numbers. The unions just ran the numbers up and out of sight.
Nothing but propaganda. The SEIU strong-armed them.
We have a Michigan FReeper who is now apparently a “union thug” because she was forced into the union because she cares for her disabled son in her home.
What they did was sent out info about the vote and since none of them were unionized most simply tossed the letter in the trash thinking it was junk mail. The union claims a vote was taken and they claim they got the numbers needed but there is no proof that a vote was taken let alone what the numbers were.
These forced union members have the potential of becoming a powerful weapon against the union.
His children caught it early enough to stop her and get
them back, she gave the things back after she whined she
was just covering herself to make sure she was paid.
She was paid by his insurance.
I told them she should have been charged.
These forced union members have the potential of becoming a powerful weapon against the union.
That all depends on whether “conservatives” have the stones to stand with them to fight this.
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