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Posted on 09/25/2026 4:08:42 AM PDT by Libloather
Nearly 200,000 people paid to care for disabled loved ones through Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $11 billion Medicaid-funded homecare program will hold a vote on whether to unionize — a move that could mean higher costs for taxpayers.
The politically influential 1199 SEIU union would also grow in sway and net a big payday from the new members’ membership dues from those paid through the terminally troubled Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP.
The union vote would massively boost SEIU’s 450,000 member ranks in what would be the largest union vote in history, according to the organization. Critics fear unionization would mean higher costs for the program, which would eventually be passed onto taxpayers.
The labor union had been expected to push a unionization effort from the start of the changeover in 2025 but it officially filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board Tuesday. No date for a vote has been set.
Hochul overhauled the program so that one company — Public Partnerships LLC — managed payroll for CDPAP, a move many viewed as a gift to the union even as switchover has been rife with issues including workers going unpaid and even accusations of fraud.
The Democratic governor has also been dogged by allegations that the bidding process for its $1 billion CDPAP contract was crafted to favor PPL.
The Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit filed in June that Hochul’s cronies at the Department of Health rigged the bid for PPL and then let the company bilk more Medicaid dollars on the back end.
“If this goes forward, it will amount to the biggest abuse of the Medicaid program in its history,” Manhattan Institute Fellow Ken Girardin said.
Approximately 65,000 personal assistants signed onto the program, sources said.
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Undercut in the beginning with promises for compensation later should be grounds for fraud prosecution.
200,000 workers and 450,000 client/patients. I see a problem there.....
“Commies in charge of money. Never a good thing.”
Commies are actually pretty good at controlling unions. Rather than trying to work with them, they simply throw their leaders into Gulags, until they understand their role in society. The Mafia was good also, although they didn’t bother wasting their time with Gulags...
Yet more corrosion of decent society.
Albany is counting on Congress to write it a check.
Do people who get what is effectively welfare are unionized to get more welfare.
What a joke.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”
— Alexander Fraser Tytler, Cycle of Democracy 1791
Could?................It will make costs explode...........
The People’s Socialist State of Colorado is way, way over it’s medicaid budget (serving all the illegals) and the corrupt legislature is trying to figure out how to totally destroy an initiative that we passed years ago severely limiting their taxing possibilities. They managed to do it...too long to explain why. I’m awaiting their latest lying proposals whilst looking into returning to my southern birthplace. Thanks to the slime that is called the DemocRAT party, the South is indeed rising again.
Always some ignorant Commie out there to make a mistake for others to follow up on, it seems.
in return, they wear body cams, report bathroom breaks to ADT, etc.
better, ankle bracelets.
Sounds like a scheme the Somalis would come up with to steal from taxpayers. Dems are going to break Medicaid and everything else. We won’t have anything for people that worked for it.
Most are probably people caring for a single relative and getting money from the government. The last time I heard of a similar situation, the union was trying to sneak through a vote so that a thousand activists could vote to unionize a couple hundred thousand people who ignored the election notice. Then they collect a few percent of the support payment as dues without providing any service.
Of course it will mean bigger bills, but the goal is just more grift for the one-party political regime in NY
IIRC: THE SEIU UNION STARTED IN LOS ANGELES AS A JANITOR’S UNION
COLO ALSO HAS A DEFICIT OF $1.6 BILLION-—WITH POPULATION OF JUST OVER 6 MILLION.
Communism/socialism will always be popular with those who think they can get something for nothing.
Associations between nurse‐to‐patient ratio, nurse educational ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC11714340
Jan 9, 2025 · The average monthly nurse‐to‐patient ratio per ward was 1:9.2 (1:7.4 for day (morning and afternoon) and 1:19.1 for night shifts).
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