Well, recall how here in RI the Democrat General Assembly, including Jack Reed, tried to add non-employee teacher union officials to the state pension system in one of their notorious midnight bills.

They might have gotten away with it too, except that the Providence Journal blew the whistle that they'd passed the bill, and the public outcry was such that they had to repeal it (claiming it was a mistake ... and if you believe that!).

The teachers unions went to court to try to make the enactment stick.

Presumably Bob Walsh was of the position that the teachers union bosses were vested as soon as the bill passed! ;-)

Yea, sure we don't...

Tom W. - come on now. We're not supposed to talk about these things. Stick with Bob Walsh's program - the Pension System is self-sustaining, but for the fact that the State did not put in it's fair share of contributions. It has nothing to do with the ludicrous benefits doled out.

Can you say LEECH!

Remember the attempt which Gov.Carcieri successfully vetoed that would've made homecare providers state employees?Grace Diaz introduced the bill and Matt Jerzyk organized the workers for the SEIU.He was also Diaz' campaign manager according to his blog.For two people from Kentucky and the Dominican Republic they sure have learned the political incest game in RI.There are many more examples of the intertwining of relationships in this state.
Off Topic:If you want to throw up,read about Dinesh D'Souza's debate with Peter Singer,a Princeton professor who advocates a 28 day post-partum period for killing newborns,but is an animal rights activist and opposes the death penalty.And this puke's parents are Holocaust survivors-he apparently didn't learn much.Sounds like a Steve Brown kind of guy.

homecare providers my ass. They are ste-paid babysitters-not a thing more.
Yeah that Singer sounds like another POS.
The "humanist left"-who brought you Stalin, Mao, Castro, Mengistu, the "poor innocent Rosenbergs" and that gaggle of Paris-trained public schoolteachers-the Khmer Rouge.
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The whole unionize the daycare workers thing was this state's version of a scam perpetrated nationally by SEIU.

The idea is to expand the ranks of unionized government employees (and thus union dues paying government employees) via those who themselves and/or their employers receive government reimbursements.

So welfare baby sitters, err, I mean daycare workers, who receive government reimbursements are a natural target.

Ditto nursing home workers.

Ditto home health care workers.

Ditto foster parents.

SEIU pioneered this scam, and seeing its success in other states other unions have started the same thing, particularly AFSCME.

Democrat politicians support this because the more of the workforce that is reliant upon government reimbursements, the more likely they are to vote for the party of more government, i.e., Democrats.

Moreover, who do you think benefits from union dues derived political contributions? And the more union dues, the more $ into Democrat election campaigns.

The only losers: private sector taxpayers.

BTW, related to the foregoing, you didn't really believe that the unions and Democrats are pushing "single payer" health care out of concern for the uninsured, did you?

Healthcare is a targeted industry by SEIU and AFL-CIO. If they can make it solely funded by government reimbursements then they can lean on politicians to "influence" hospital management not to oppose union organizing drives ... and thus more dues for unions and Democrat politicians.

Follow the money.