BUMPED: John Stossel is covering this tonight (2/11) on his Fox Business show tonight.

Liberty Chick has a fantastic article over at Big Government that details one of SEIU’s most recent methods of forcing more and more workers become union members.  Except this time, it’s all about self-employed people being forced, by executive order, to pay union dues with almost no benefit whatsoever. 

These are home-based child care workers.  Daycare centers that people run out of their own homes.  No card check.  No meetings.  No votes.  Nothing.  The governors of several states make these people union members, the union sets up a shell company that these people aren’t employees of but with which the union can “bargain” with, and take union dues out of payments made by child care subsidy programs. 

And in a weird twist, one woman was forced to close her home-based day care business due to economic circumstances.  She went to work for another woman with whom she filed suit against the state regarding this forced unionization.  The employer is forced to pay union dues, but the woman who now works for her, the employee, is not.  Whoa. 

With these fiats, unions get access to people’s home addresses and other information required because of child care licensing laws.  And the only thing the business owner gets out of it is, well, nothing.  Read the whole article.  Watch the video.  It’s sickening. 

Being the “subject” of a union through my husband’s work, I’m glad I live in a state where the union doesn’t have the hold it does on workers.  It’s a right to work state.  However, my husband is practically forced to join lest he be left on his own if he needs help out in the field or if he wants anyone in his office talking to him, period.  I don’t understand how that goes on — wouldn’t that be some sort of harrassment?  Plus, each election season, we get pamphlets listing the people we are supposed to vote for.  Just a list, no reasons listed.  Some of these unions are tax exempt — how can they get away with that (especially when churches are being targeted if pastors / priests preach about specific candidates)? 

Something I’m going to have to look into, I guess…