Thursday, September 10, 2009

Read the Union Health-Care Label: Get ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals

The Wall Street Journal reports:
The Senate version opens the door to implement forced unionization schemes pursued by former Govs. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois in 2005 and Gray Davis of California in 1999. Both men repaid tremendous political debts to Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union (SEIU) by reclassifying state-reimbursed in-home health-care (and child-care) contractors as state employees—and forcing them to pay union dues.
With unions comes campaign contributions to politicians that seek to stay in office for decades.