Smarter Government – SEIU Doesn’t Want Home Care Workers To Know Their Rights
Sometimes the simplest cases take the most patience and persistence. Take Olympia’s Freedom Foundation, for example. It wants to contact home care providers, who are paid through the state with Medicaid funds, with a simple message: you don’t have to join a union and pay dues if you’d rather not. The home care workers’ union, SEIU, is suing to prevent this from happening.
Q13 Fox – Judge Says State Can Release Info About Child Care Providers
A Thurston County judge says the state may release contact information about licensed child care providers under a public records request.
The Lens – Shrouded In Secrecy: Public Sector Labor Talks In Washington
Since 2002 in Washington state, public unions and the governor have negotiated in secrecy over state employee benefits and salaries as part of the biennial budget. They make out pretty well in tight times. With the value of job security included, Washington dispenses to its state employees combined benefits and salaries six percent higher than comparable private sector workers, according to one 2014 analysis.
KPLU – State Employees Upset About Freedom Foundation’s Requests For Their Birth Dates
Tens of thousands of state workers in Washington are the target of unusual public records requests from an anti-union group asking for their birth dates. The requests came from the Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Olympia that’s targeting public sector unions. On its web site, the group says it wants to “reverse the stranglehold public-sector unions have on our government.”
