A very important read on a couple of initiatives that will be on the ballot this year. And a great opportunity to understand how SEIU is using local lawmaking to grow their union at a high cost to the city, non-union labor, and even children. This union agreed to a deal on minimum wage, and before the ink was even dry, turned around and broke their word on not running an initiative to change it. Really importantly, pay attention to the part of the ordinance that will create a ...new infrastructure for early childhood-education training and oversight, requiring teachers and staff to get training through a Professional Development Institute operated jointly by the city and a single provider, which, under the standards laid out in 107, would inevitably be operated by the unions. More specifically by SEIU. They attempted to, and still might get the same thing from the $15 minimum wage law. SEIU is literally setting themselves up by local lawmaking to have the city pay them to organize workers here and function as a psuedo-governmental body overseeing how the city operates. This is a nationally run organization that we would pay to run a part of our city, that of course voters would not have control over. All the while, the local politicians, while pissed, are dancing around about how much they express it, because SEIU gives them so much money. Labor is important because it represents workers. But when it gets out of control and promotes its larger organizational goals over whats good for the entire city, even screwing kids out of early educational opportunities, we need stand up and say enough. The first step is to vote against the SEIU backed initiative here. Then its time we look further into how influential Labor is in local politics. Who is getting paid by them, who they are donating too, which policy it is influencing and how.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:39:06 +0000
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