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| Topic: Michigan Forces Business Owners Into Public Sector Unions | |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703478704574612341241120838.html
Michelle Berry runs a private day-care service from her home on the outskirts of this city, the birthplace of General Motors. "The Berry Patch," as she calls the service, features overstuffed purple gorillas, giant cartoon murals, and a playroom covered in Astroturf. Her clients are mostly low-income parents who need child care to keep their jobs in a city that now has a 26% unemployment rate.
Ms. Berry owns her own business—yet the Michigan Department of Human Services claims she is a government employee and union member. The agency thus withholds union dues from the child-care subsidies it sends to her on behalf of her low-income clients. Those dues are funneled to a public-employee union that claims to represent her. The situation is crazy—and it's happening elsewhere in the country. WOOHOO Another score for our Governor. I have been wondering for YEARS whether she is driving this state into the ground on purpose. I'll just be glad when she's gone. |
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how is she a government employee???
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Well then she should strike for higher wages and a better benefit package. Or close her business and collect benefits from the Union and the state.
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how is she a government employee??? She isn't. It's just one of those " shady " dealings that our state government has gotten good at. |
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how is she a government employee??? Because some of her parents receive a childcare subsidy from the state... so she is receiving payments from the state... that's how they are doing it.. and they are taking it right out of there state payments. It's not right. It's been on the radar for a while... there was a new report on it a couple months ago. |
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that is the silliest thing I've heard.
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Edited by
tanyaann
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Sat 12/26/09 03:49 PM
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that is the silliest thing I've heard.
Welcome to Michigan politics. Just about all state employees are in a union. They usually don't force their vendors into a union. And that is what the home child care centers would be considered. |
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I know sometimes unions are good. My grandfather was part of one with Bell helicopter....if they are run right. but this???
silly silly silly |
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Edited by
cashu
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Sat 12/26/09 06:26 PM
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I know sometimes unions are good. My grandfather was part of one with Bell helicopter....if they are run right. but this??? silly silly silly I bet she won't be whineing when in the future she gets to retire with a pension . Some people are not to smart Now days . |
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I'm sure she will somehow get screwed out of that.
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