Minnesota Home-Care Workers To Decertify SEIU

Posted by Olivia Grady on Monday, July 18th, 2016 at 9:06 am - Permalink
For Immediate Release
 
July 18, 2016
 
Washington, D.C. - Home-care workers in Minnesota have announced plans to remove the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as their collective bargaining representative.
 
The campaign is led by Kris Greene, a Minnesota native and Lakeville-area personal care assistant (PCA) who takes care of her special-needs daughter at home.  Mrs. Greene says of her desire to remove the union:
 
I don't need a union to help me take care of my daughter. And I don't need a union taking 3% of our money.
            
Minnesota recently passed a law declaring 27,000 PCAs public employees. As a result, the SEIU has trapped them in a collective bargaining unit and is skimming 3% of the public subsidy members receive to assist in the care of their loved ones.
 
Center for Worker Freedom (CWF) Executive Director Matt Patterson said:
 
The unions are taking money that Minnesotans intended to give to the disabled and their caregivers. This is a scam, plain and simple.  Pilfering off public assistance is a special low, even for the SEIU.
 
Mrs. Greene has until December 2 to collect some 9,000 signatures from fellow PCAs, authorizing an election to decertify the SEIU.  
 
The Center for Worker Freedom, along with its coalition allies in Minnesota, will proudly assist with logistical and communications support.  The website decertify.org has been launched that will allow PCAs to generate an authorization card online.
 
For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Olivia Grady at (202) 785-0266 or ogrady@atr.org
 
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