Ramco Judge: “Do Your Rackets The Old-Fashioned Way”
By Mitch Berg
A Ramsey county judge has told Governor Dayton, the SEIU and the AFSCME that they’re going to have to go back to shaking down small businesses the old-fasioned way – without state goverment help (for now):
Just two days before ballots were set to go out, a Ramsey County Judge has halted the upcoming election on child care unionization by issuing a temporary restraining order. Ramsey County Judge Lindman said the matter should go through the legislature instead. He also said the election was “very harmful to all of the parties involved.”
The entire bid to unionize childcare workers get more dues-paying members to prop up their budgets and political efforts is going to have to Plan B – actually make sure it’s a debate:.
Judge Lindman set a hearing on the injunction for January 16th. “It means we have more time to educate providers and get the truth out,” Hollee said. “It gives me hope. We’re small business owners and I keep telling people, who’s next?”
More on the NARN in coming weekends.
December 6th, 2011 at 7:42 am
If there are really any daycare providers that support this illegal unionization ploy, I am surprised that they still have customers, especially those that support a right to work environment. They have to realize that they will subsidize their union dues with higher costs.
December 6th, 2011 at 9:07 am
So daycare providers can’t vote on this, but citizens need to vote on marriage? Apparently whether you have the right to marry isn’t “harmful to everyone”? It’s amazing how some issues need to be debated and others don’t.
December 6th, 2011 at 11:06 am
Why can’t we just do things the Chicago Way? Pay off the judge with money you’re going to shake down from the working class that need daycare, via the “unionized” providers? After three years of Obama, you would think these people could have figured it out.
December 6th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
I think you are underestimating the deviousness of SEIU/AFSCME, Bosshoss.
These union guys know that they’ll put any union shop out of business if they have to compete head-to-head with a non-union shop, so their goal is to either have the state subsidize their workers’ wages (so that their “customers” don’t pay the true cost of the services they are “purchasing”), or too provide no actual increase in their workers’ wages/bennies so the costs do not increase — but they collect dues and get to say that represent the interests & votes of thousands of “their” workers (SEIU has been accused of this before, and is not afraid to crack heads when necessary to silence dissent in the ranks).
December 6th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I was contacted by Hollee last night. Here’s the comment she left me:
December 6th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
So daycare providers can’t vote on this, but citizens need to vote on marriage?
Right. What do the two issues have in common?
Being passed by the legislature isn’t it.
I”m not being sarcastic. If you think that “unionized daycare” is something that should be in the MN Constitution, get the legislative support for an amendment. Lotsa luck.
Apparently whether you have the right to marry isn’t “harmful to everyone”? It’s amazing how some issues need to be debated and others don’t.
What’s amazing is that you don’t see the self-contradiction in your statement. Dayton declared the vote among childcare providers – not government employees, mind you – by executive decree, with no public debate whatsoever.
December 6th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
“the right to marry”
Whether you are homo or hetro, we all have the same rights.
December 6th, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Great points, Terry.
I just learned that Gov. Jim Beam’s evil twin brother in IL, Pat Quinn and his state’s union stooges are trying to do the same thing there! Hmmm, since the SEIU is behind the effort there, too, I wonder where he got the idea!
December 6th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
It is to get more money for political efforts. But I know a union rep (in the private sector) and union dues are also there to cover expenses for union reps to make all-expense paid trips for Las Vegas for “conferences”.
December 6th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Bosshoss, union leaders have a tough job. They have to convince their members that their union membership, in itself, above and beyond their education, their work ethic, and any certifications they may have, significantly increases their wages and bennies.
Then they have to convince management (or the State) that paying more for unionized employee wages and bennies doesn’t add to their costs.
If anyone doesn’t fall for the song and dance I’ve described, the union bosses can always fall back on threats and violence.
December 7th, 2011 at 8:58 am
There is a great organization out there that has been fighting the unions and the NLRB’s illegal actions against Boeing. You may want to check out the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation http://www.nrtw.org. There is at least one bill in the House right now that will eliminate the ability for union leaders to commit violent acts to support union goals, without penalties established under the 1973 Enmons decision. I urge all of you to contact your reps to ask them to support the bill.