Child care providers need to do their research on unions, legislation

My kids were in daycare until recently. This proposal is really bad. It gives me reason not to support DFLers who are pushing it. Why are they doing this?

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There doesn't need to be a union in the first place - then you point out how the union - not the union members - need the money. Sweet deal for the salaries and benefits and expense accounts for the union administration - they even get paid if there is a strike.

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"Commonman" - Why should a non-union worker receive the same benefits as a union worker does if the union got them the benefits? i.e. Both you and I are working for some company making $9 per hour. I decide to join the union and you don’t. The union fights to get union workers $10 per hour. I suppose you would also insist on getting paid $10 per hour because everyone else is. In other words, riding the wave off other people paying union dues.

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Unionization appears to be a solution looking for a problem. If it does not promote the public good in some way, I see no reason to force business owners to participate when they don't want to.

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Agreed, but I would also like to see the legislator's expense reports and benefits. At least a union bargains for raises and benefits, elected politicians just vote it for themselves.

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The only ones pushing for a union are the union leaders, for more cash in their pockets and more cash for influence peddling.

Time for a study on how much union staffers earn every year, what their expense accounts look like and what they do with the rest of the money.

In this business, a strike or big increases in fees means the end of each of these small businesses. The union wouldn't carry their expenses to live on.

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All valid points, Jen. Unionizing would drive up costs of the providers and they in turn would pass that on to the parents. Having to pay dues as a "fair share" member who did not want to be in the union would definitely rankle my kid's daycare.

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