Public Sector Unions Planning to Forcibly Enroll Non-Government Employees
23rd August 2012
Here’s how they plan to do it: they are using state governments to set up shell corporations that will turn self-employed workers receiving money from government programs into “government employees” who can be unionized. Already there are ten states that have set up shell corporations or other structures to forcibly unionize independent care providers, who are often people taking care of their disabled children or people taking care of their elderly parents who receive benefits from federal-state programs for their care .
The steps involved in the forced unionization are simple:
- The providers have clients who pay for their services using government funds as “government employees.”
- Because the providers are self-employed people who work for disabled people, but are partially or fully paid for with government programs that pay for the care of the disabled, either the state itself becomes the “employer of record” or the state creates a fictional council or government shell entity to serve as the “employer” of these self-employed providers. This may be done by a governor’s executive order or by act of a state legislature. Some of these shell entities are: the Michigan Quality Community Care Council (MQC3), the Michigan Home Based Child Care Council (MHBC3), and Missouri Quality Home Care Council.
- Once the independent providers are “government employees”, they can be unionized, and forced to pay union dues, whether or not they join the union—in forced dues states.
A lawyer for the unions even admitted in court that this is a “slippery slope” and states could unionize “any group that accepted state subsidies” if the state considered it in its interest to unionize them.
Reminds me of the tame ‘unions’ that the Nazis and Communists set up under their totalitarian regimes.
August 23rd, 2012 at 06:30
“states could unionize “any group that accepted state subsidies” if the state considered it in its interest to unionize them.”
Since the states are footing the bill, they get to set some of the rules. So where’s the problem?