Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind by Mallory Factor
Authors: Mallory Factor
Tags: Political Science, Labor & Industrial Relations, Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
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Government Employee Unions 2.0. As we will see in this chapter, government employee unions have already captured home health-care workers and home child-care providers—who are often just parents receiving government benefits to take care of their disabled children or people taking care of their own elderly parents.
But the government employee unions have bigger plans—to unionize other groups that receive payments from the government related to their work. Unions have their sights set on the millions of health-care workers who will receive government funds under Obamacare and the large groups of Americans that receive government benefits.
No doubt unions will try to extend the model as far as possible, since it’s filling their bank accounts with additional union dues.
But first, let’s look at what the government employee unions have already done to home-care providers in many states across the nation.
Where It Ends
Who knows?
If the state can recast independent care providers as “government employees,” give them all the burdens of unionization but none of the privileges of government employment, then what can’t they do? Who are unions going to go after next?
The Government Employee Unions 2.0 model opens up new groups of people to unionization, people who are not actually government workers but who receive funds from the government in relation to their work. Unions will probably expand this model to other groups of workers that receive government funds in connection with their work.
Government officials can probably unionize any group of people who are compensated for their work through a government program—as long as the government officials can argue it is in the public interest to unionize them.
In our age of increasing government intervention in theeconomy, almost anyone could potentially be unionized. Union bosses realize this. One union lawyer in a case challenging the unionization of care providers in Michigan admitted in open court that unionizing these care providers was a “slippery slope.” 48 He reportedly admitted to the judge that “unionization of any group that accepted state subsidies would be within the state’s authority if it had ‘added value’ to the state or the public’s interest.” 49 The union lawyer was simply pointing out that it is a slippery slope when states start handing over independent workers to the unions. Government officials can probably unionize any group of people who are compensated for their work through a government program—as long as the government officials can argue it is in the public interest to unionize them. And what Shadowboss-supported politician wouldn’t agree that unionizing more Americans is in the public interest?
Chapter 8 Summary Points
Government employee unions are working to recast anyone who receives benefits or compensation from the government and does some work for the funds as a government employee who can be forcibly unionized.
Parents taking care of their disabled children, people taking care of their elderly parents, and other caregivers who are compensated under government programs have been the first targets for forced unionization.
Many care providers never even heard about the election putting them under union control until they received notice that they had been unionized and that they owe as much as $95 in union dues per month.
Ivy League union bosses like Andy Stern and his successors at the SEIU and Change to Win have focused on organizing ever larger groups of American workers who were previously considered unorganizable.
“Organizing the unorganizable” is a lucrative growth plan for government employee unions. SEIU Local 880, the notorious ACORN-dominated Chicago local that Obama worked for, unionized twenty thousand personal-care assistants, generating at least $3.6 million a year in forced dues.
With a few tweaks of the law and help from pro-union politicians, Social Security recipients, welfare moms, food
But the government employee unions have bigger plans—to unionize other groups that receive payments from the government related to their work. Unions have their sights set on the millions of health-care workers who will receive government funds under Obamacare and the large groups of Americans that receive government benefits.
No doubt unions will try to extend the model as far as possible, since it’s filling their bank accounts with additional union dues.
But first, let’s look at what the government employee unions have already done to home-care providers in many states across the nation.
Where It Ends
Who knows?
If the state can recast independent care providers as “government employees,” give them all the burdens of unionization but none of the privileges of government employment, then what can’t they do? Who are unions going to go after next?
The Government Employee Unions 2.0 model opens up new groups of people to unionization, people who are not actually government workers but who receive funds from the government in relation to their work. Unions will probably expand this model to other groups of workers that receive government funds in connection with their work.
Government officials can probably unionize any group of people who are compensated for their work through a government program—as long as the government officials can argue it is in the public interest to unionize them.
In our age of increasing government intervention in theeconomy, almost anyone could potentially be unionized. Union bosses realize this. One union lawyer in a case challenging the unionization of care providers in Michigan admitted in open court that unionizing these care providers was a “slippery slope.” 48 He reportedly admitted to the judge that “unionization of any group that accepted state subsidies would be within the state’s authority if it had ‘added value’ to the state or the public’s interest.” 49 The union lawyer was simply pointing out that it is a slippery slope when states start handing over independent workers to the unions. Government officials can probably unionize any group of people who are compensated for their work through a government program—as long as the government officials can argue it is in the public interest to unionize them. And what Shadowboss-supported politician wouldn’t agree that unionizing more Americans is in the public interest?
Chapter 8 Summary Points
Government employee unions are working to recast anyone who receives benefits or compensation from the government and does some work for the funds as a government employee who can be forcibly unionized.
Parents taking care of their disabled children, people taking care of their elderly parents, and other caregivers who are compensated under government programs have been the first targets for forced unionization.
Many care providers never even heard about the election putting them under union control until they received notice that they had been unionized and that they owe as much as $95 in union dues per month.
Ivy League union bosses like Andy Stern and his successors at the SEIU and Change to Win have focused on organizing ever larger groups of American workers who were previously considered unorganizable.
“Organizing the unorganizable” is a lucrative growth plan for government employee unions. SEIU Local 880, the notorious ACORN-dominated Chicago local that Obama worked for, unionized twenty thousand personal-care assistants, generating at least $3.6 million a year in forced dues.
With a few tweaks of the law and help from pro-union politicians, Social Security recipients, welfare moms, food
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