Obama Administration Sides With Union (250,000 SEIU members) on California’s Proposed Wage Cuts

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CNS News

By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com) - In a victory for its labor union friends, the Obama administration has ruled that budget-strapped California cannot cut the wages of in-home care givers since it is accepting federal stimulus funds.

The stimulus money is intended to prevent such cuts, President Barack Obama has said.

This week's ruling -- from Obama’s Health and Human Services Department -- involves the 250,000 workers who belong to the Service Employees International Union.

Those 250,000 In-Home Supportive Service workers provide daily in-home care for some 440,000 California seniors and people with disabilities who otherwise might require nursing home care.




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[Cha]

1. Yay for that decision by Prez

Obama and Yay for the SEIU members in California!

[bluestateguy]

2. I say cut the prison guards' salaries

THAT is one union that is too powerful and could stand to be busted.

[Omaha Steve]

3. This isn't about prison guards

Fourth line of the story: Those 250,000 In-Home Supportive Service workers provide daily in-home care for some 440,000 California seniors and people with disabilities who otherwise might require nursing home care.

[No Elephants]

4. Score one for the unions, zero for the Terminator. Gobama!

[SpartanDem]

5. Good it's about time someone stood up for the average worker

[friendly_iconoclast]

6. Good for the O-man and good for my brother and sister SEIU members.

And up yours, Ah-nuld!

[Hannah Bell]

7. good.

[davidinalameda]

8. maybe they can use that money to do better background checks on these workers

there are too many thugs getting through to work with the most vulnerable