Jerry Brown vetoes child care unionizing bill (SEIU 'devastated')

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 5, 2011 | Wyatt Buchanan

[tlb]

Brown has surprised California dems with several such vetos in the last few weeks.

[Tax-chick]

Obviously a significant portion of Jerry Brown’s constituents told him they don’t want their child-care costs going through the roof. Duh!

[cripplecreek]

Better to veto than to watch it fail later. Jenny Granholm imposed it on child care workers here but it only survived about a month past the election.

[johniegrad]

Unionized child care. Idiots. Glad he vetoed it.

[Venturer]

Isn’t there a State somewhere that did this and it totally screwed up child care in that State?

I mean people were forced to join a Union whether they wanted to or not and forced to pay Union dues.

I seem to remember reading about it and it was an atrocity.

[SMARTY]

The operative word in your statement is ‘DUH’!!!

[Tax-chick]

Referring to the mentation level of SEIU goons ;-).

If I were the employer of Miss Devastated, the “child care provider,” she’d be a non-provider in short order.

[originalbuckeye]

The Socialist State of California would only accept this from a Dem. The CA legislature keeps trying to go hard left and Brown resists. Interesting.

[originalbuckeye]

Yep. That would certainly have shut down ‘date night’ in our house!

[Tax-chick]

And then the government would be Shocked! that restaurants and other adult leisure venues suffered a loss of revenue.

[sickoflibs]

RE :"Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday vetoed a major labor-backed bill that would have allowed child care workers, including family members, to unionize. The measure was pushed by Democratic leaders in the Legislature and introduced in the final days of the session. In vetoing the child care worker bill, AB101, Brown wrote to lawmakers that maintaining quality and affordable child care, along with ensuring fair working conditions are important goals. "

If Meg Whitman (RINO) or any other Republican was in that office and did this Democrats and the media would destroy them for this, citing hatred for working people. But Jerry Brown is looking for survival. This also sets opposition precident for other states like Maryland.

[stephenjohnbanker]

One thing about Governor Moonbeam.....you never know what he will do at any given moment.In the late 70’s, he allowed state workers to unionize (the aftermath to this is part of California’s demise) and then turned around and cut corporate taxes. I was 25 in 1979 and about to go into business for myself....I got a letter from Moonbeam: “ We want to grow small business. Call if you need help “

Lunatic : )

[sickoflibs]

RE :"One thing about Governor Moonbeam.....you never know what he will do at any given moment."

He is in a tight spot here. In Maryland the Dem gov O'Malley (who goes on all the Sunday shows praising Obama's politics) can afford more counterproduct stuff that gets Dem votes like waves of tax increases and unionization.. He's got the Federal government funding the economy and Obama is still relatively popular here.

Brown has a state slowly sliding into the Pacific Ocean and he is at the bridge.

[ken5050]

I haven’t really been following this, but if Brown vetoed the bill, doesn’t that mean that he’s AGAINST giving the workers the right the bargain collectively?..So what’s the difference between this and Wisconsin?

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

"Child care providers - nearly 80,000 throughout California - desperately needed this legislation so that we could improve our lives and the lives of the families we serve."

Glad I wasn't sipping my coffee when I read that last part.

[NonValueAdded]

a major labor-backed bill that would have allowed child care workers, including family members, to unionize.

I would think if child care workers wanted to unionize, they could do so already. Of course, a union child care facility would not be cost-competitive. I suspect what this bill did was to FORCE them to unionize so there would be no alternative - hence the adding of family members to the mix.

[BfloGuy]

Glad I wasn't sipping my coffee when I read that last part.

Yeah, because it's all about "the families we serve". And the children, of course, too. I predict this decision will hit women and minorities hardest.

[Tax-chick]

doesn’t that mean that he’s AGAINST giving the workers the right the bargain collectively

Maybe. It could mean that he's against being the subject of a recall movement led by outraged employers of babysitters/daycare workers.

[Impy]

We are lucky the RINO didn’t win.

[moovova]

Whoa! Good on you Moonbeam!