A recent piece
in the WSJ is a classic illustration of the fact that the legendary
political power of the vaunted labor unions is based at this point only
on government-sanctioned coercion.
One of the biggest supporters of Democrat politicians
is the ultra-leftist Service Employees International Union (SEIU). In
2005, the Democratic governor of blue-state Michigan, a socialist named
Jennifer Granholm, gave the SEIU the power to unionize the 40,000 or so
home health care workers in the state. These estimable folk are usually
independent contractors – i.e., small business owners – or just family
members caring for disabled people, often elderly people. Of course,
the SEIU – like all unions – is desperately scrambling for more members
to shore up its ranks. Union-tool Granholm held that because these
workers get Medicaid subsidies, they were to be considered “public
employees.”
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