Thursday, January 16, 2014
"Meet the homemaker who could end Illinois' push to unionize home health care"
They are not as popular these days, and they are losing membership (read due$).
As a result, they are looking for new revenue streams...
On the Washington Times website, Sean Higgins is following this story:
"Pamela Harris is an Illinois homemaker who takes care of her developmentally disabled son, Joshua. She gets financial help from a state program funded through Medicaid. Technically, the subsidy goes to Joshua, who 'employs' his mother as a home health care worker. Because of this arrangement, Illinois has decided that not only is she a state employee, but that it has compelling interest that she join a union.
Harris still doesn’t know why. It is not like she ever plans to go on strike against her son.
"I kept asking, 'What’s the benefit to me?' I could never get an answer," she told me Monday. On Jan. 21, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments by lawyers for her and seven other women, all but one of whom look after family members, into whether Illinois' push to unionize them is constitutional."
