Thankfully
Back in early February I posted about the attempt by the state legislature to collect and unionize the child care worker across the state.
Again, thankfully, they were unsuccessful.
After years of success at passing laws that allowed tens of thousands of low-wage, service-sector workers to unionize, labor groups hit a wall — or at least a speed bump — this year in the Legislature.
Democratic leaders in the Senate last week pulled the plug on a bill that would have extended collective-bargaining rights to some 12,000 day-care-center workers. Lawmakers also shot down bills that would have allowed many of the state’s foster parents and about 4,000 adult-family-home workers to unionize.
“There seems to be a general uneasiness among many people about the concept of collective bargaining in these nontraditional areas,” said Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, chairwoman of the Senate Labor, Commerce, Research and Development Committee.
Anything Kohl-Welles fails at is a success for the citizen. She of the unending gun-bigotry will try anything to make her donations from hyper-leftist groups happy.
In the past six years, unions have added more than 65,000 members by pushing through new collective-bargaining laws.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has led the way. Under the new laws, the SEIU has organized nearly 40,000 state-paid home-health-care and child-care workers, helping it become the state’s largest union. The Washington Federation of State Employees also added thousands of members by winning new bargaining rights.
The rapid growth — adding millions of dollars in additional dues — has vastly expanded the unions’ political clout. That, in turn, has led to hundreds of millions of dollars in increased wages and benefits for the newly unionized workers.
And thousands of dollars to extremist left-wing politicians like Kohl-Welles.
The employees in the education fields who were forced to join unions or lose their careers in Washington State were the ones who filed the lawsuit that was successful in halting the unions from using their dues for political causes without member input.
The citizen had to push back against the union’s and Kohl-Welles extremist vision of a union-run state.
The whole point of unionizing the low-wage service-sector Mexicans and such is to then collect their union-dues once they manage to stuff “Universal Pre-School” or “Universal Child Care” down everybody’s throats – and with that money gain political power.
The SEIU practically runs the California Legislature and they bargain with the State Employees Union to divide up the taxpayer’s largesse…