Minnesota Union Faces Largest Decertification Vote In History

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Daily Caller:

Minnesota home health care workers launched a campaign to disband their union Monday in what could become the largest decertification vote in history.

 

Kris Greene has taken care of her daughter for almost 24 years as a Personal Care Assistant (PCA). She is now leading the fight to decertify the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents all 27,000 home health care workers statewide since 2013. Greene believes the union won the vote based on misinformation and that it only cares about getting Medicaid funds.

 

“Well the SEIU came in and said that PCAs are state employees and in doing that they have unionized us,” Greene told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “So that is what we’re trying to fight against. That we’re not employees and that I don’t need a union to represent me or my daughter.”

 

Greene and other union critics will first have to get at least 30 percent of home health care workers to agree to hold a decertification vote by December. The SEIU won the original election even though only about 5,800 showed up to vote. Greene believes the reason so few voted was because most weren’t aware of what was happening.