Posted on 03/09/2011 1:14:47 PM PST by MichCapCon
UAW President Bob King has a unique perspective on day care worker “pay cuts.” During a press conference yesterday, King denounced Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration for ending the Department of Human Service’s practice of taking “dues” out of government subsidy payments that low-income families use to pay home-based day care providers. According to the Detroit Free Press, King described the governor’s action as part of an agenda “to destroy the middle class.”
The truth is, many home-based day care providers around the state are rejoicing that their pay is no longer being reduced for public-sector “union dues” — especially since the providers are private employers who receive none of the benefits that real public employees do. Many of them own their own business, so the union could not represent them in negotiations, could not bargain on their behalf. Yet money was being extracted anyway.
Nor did these providers benefit from the promise of extra training — another justification for roping private businesses into a government union. In 2006, Mott Community College was asked to enter into an interlocal agreement with the DHS in order to have a mechanism for creating the Michigan Home Based Child Care Council, the needed “employer” for the union to bargain against. Mott agreed, on the understanding that it would be instrumental in offering additional training to day care providers.
When the MHBCCC was dissolved by Mott Community College earlier this week, Michael Kelly, Mott’s executive director of public information, said in an e-mail: “We are content to have this end. We agreed to provide training but have never been asked to do so.”
What’s truly striking is that a union that was willing to take millions of dollars from the child care subsidy payments of “welfare-to-work” families is now expressing concern that children will be thrown into poverty.
The evidence (including union e-mails) seems clear that this whole day care arrangement was concocted by the unions and the Granholm administration to siphon millions of dollars from needy families and day care owners without providing anything in return.
Cry me a freaking river you thief!
LOL
The swindler’s union is forced to take a pay cut.
I really don’t get how anyone can call it a “paycut” or say it hurts the middle class when its just the government union that is being cut out.
FYI - I had a union thug show up at my door, I was self-employed and he should not have had any information on where I lived (not suppose to say where we are for security reasons). He wanted me to sign up. I asked him why I should do that since I get paid what is required for me to operate. He turned and walked away. Also, when I went to a
required class I was told to send a letter stating that I
was opting out of union - because they automatically were putting day care mothers in the union...
Unions and their thugs are nothing more than protection rackets.
It is a form of slavery.
It is criminal that they were stealing the money from those checks in the first place!
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