Posted on 09/04/2009 8:41:11 AM PDT by DFG
Kathy Keith has cared for a son with Down syndrome for 23 years and never dreamed that one day organized labor would consider her a prime candidate for a union card.
So she was skeptical when representatives from two of the nation's largest unions began competing for her attention over the last few weeks with unannounced visits to her home, mailings and phone messages promising to fatten her state stipend.
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Hey unions - you might try to get more money by doing more actual work.
If you want to do nothing and give away other people’s money - do the obvious thing: run for a democrat position.
Great. Just another way to ‘kill off grandma’. With a strike.
I want a stipend for staying at home to care for my children!
The country is being over run with Marxist thugs!
This is why we must, whenever possible, not buy anything made by any union, no matter what.
“This is a nice place you have here. It would be a shame if something happened to it.”
AFSCME is the one i would choose if I was forced at gunpoint to choose.
This is an unbelieveable stretch.
Gotta hand it to ‘em for creativity though.
Let me get this straight. The State is encouraging home care providers to join a union that could represent them by collective bargaining - with the State.
Sounds like yet another excuse to give unions more money.
Caregivers who vote against joining a union or don't vote at all would get to choose whether to become members if SEIU or AFSCME receives the most votes, but even if they decline to join, they will have to pay "fair share" dues, according to union representatives.
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