Connecticut Government Focuses on Non-Union Worker Collective Bargaining “Options”
Yesterday, the next step toward Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy completing his scheme to force unionize personal care attendants took place. CTNewsJunkie.com reported:
The four-member Personal Care Attendant Working Group adopted a series of “options” Wednesday that will allow the state to move forward with plans to allow personal care attendants to collectively bargain for their salary and benefits. Personal Care Attendants take care of low-income disabled individuals through a Medicaid waiver system operated by the state.
The final report does not recommend a specific union or specific process for unionization. The daycare providers covered by Malloy’s executive order No. 9 have already voted to form a union. The personal care attendants have not.
That’s right, the government created another level of bureaucracy, the Personal Care Attendant Working Group, to issue “options” for collective bargaining to workers who are not unionized.
The Working Group’s report recommends:
The final report does not recommend a specific union or specific process for unionization. The daycare providers covered by Malloy’s executive order No. 9 have already voted to form a union. The personal care attendants have not.
The report, which no one had a copy of at the meeting, recommended that personal care attendants be covered by the State Employee Relations Act for the purposes of legislation. However, it said they would not considered state employees and would not have access to the state employee pension plan. Instead, a group would be formed to represent them in negotiations with the state.
The breakdown:
- A group of unelected bureaucrats writes a report detailing “options” for personal care attendants’ collective bargaining rights
- The report recommends non-government employees (personal care attendants) to be covered by the State Employee Relations Act (a law that covers government workers)
- The report suggests personal care attendants should not be considered government employees or receive government pensions
- The report recommends that a group should be formed to negotiate for personal care attendants
Essentially Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Executive Order to forcibly unionize personal care attendants and the Working Group’s report sends a clear message: personal care attendants can pick any union they want, but they will be forced to pick a union and that union will deduct dues from their paychecks.
Reminder: The Competitive Enterprise Institute in collaboration with the Yankee Institute for Public Policy sent a mailer to inform personal care attendants of the forced unionization effort against them, and to oppose Gov. Dannel Malloy’s abuse and overreach of government power.
To view and share the mailer, go here.
For other news on forced unionization, see here, here, and here.