Home care workers file for largest union election in Minnesota history
Source: workday Minnesota
By Barb Kucera,
ST. PAUL
Joined by the clients they serve, workers who care for people in their homes filed Tuesday to form a union. Organizing under the slogan, Invisible No More, they said a union will improve pay, working conditions and the quality of care.
The state Bureau of Mediation Services will conduct a mail ballot election among the states 26,000 home care workers, making it the largest single union vote in state history.
The workers are seeking representation by SEIU Healthcare Minnesota, a statewide local of the Service Employees International Union. They filed cards signed by more than 9,000 home care workers, triggering the process for a vote. Organizers expect the election to take place in August.
We are coming together because we know that in other states where home care workers have formed a union, they have won significant wage increases, access to benefits and training opportunities, and most importantly, a voice in the state decisions that affect them, said Darleen Henry, a home care worker from Rosemount.
FULL story at link.
Tyler Frank, who cares for his partner, Nicole, was among the home care workers who spoke at a rally Tuesday after filing for union representation.
Read more: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/articles/home-care-workers-file-largest-union-election-minnesota-history
shenmue
(38,506 posts)benld74
(9,909 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)within 2 years we were a "right to work for less" state. Thanks to the Koch Bros. and the louse Governor Snyder.
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)pensions, poor benefits and economic insecurity.
genwah
(574 posts)quadrature
(2,049 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,708 posts)"Home care workers are employed by their clients seniors and people with disabilities but are paid mainly through public funds"
quadrature
(2,049 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)the right to set the pay schedule for various types of workers.
TexasTowelie
(112,417 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)they as well need health care ins.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)JoeyT
(6,785 posts)LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)cate94
(2,813 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)btw thanks again again for the excellent news
Omaha Steve
(99,708 posts)Eight home health care workers objected to paying union security fees, and challenged the PLRA out of thousands of workers!
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation got businesses to put up the $ in this anti-union case.
OS
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Yeah. That's the POINT if you think about it.
Just as : our present economic arrangements are SO *19th* century.
K and R.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Happy to support, kick & recommend!
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)myrna minx
(22,772 posts)Congratulations to their new brothers and sisters.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)It's something else, and whatever that system is called, it's more likely than not that it's quite hard on working people, without commensurate compensation.
mitchtv
(17,718 posts)It's got to be done!