Lawsuits seek to stop Pa. from creating unofficial union for home care providers

The Washington Examiner reports:

Pennsylvania home healthcare workers likely will find out late this year whether they will have union dues deducted from their state subsidy checks as a consequence of an April vote in which just 13 percent of them voted in favor of collective bargaining.

Two groups have filed suit to stop the state and a hearing is set for September.

The vote happened despite state law saying the caregivers are not state employees and therefore not eligible to unionize. Democratic Gov. Peter Wolf nevertheless signed an executive order in February creating a "direct care worker representative" position that could be filled by a labor organization and would otherwise act as a union.

The Pennsylvania Homecare Association, a trade group, and the Fairness Institute, a libertarian nonprofit, have filed lawsuits on behalf of caregivers seeking to have the executive order voided. A preliminary injunction was granted and a ruling by a panel of state judges will likely to come two to three months later.

The union movement makes its' own law.