Judge rejects Dayton's effort to hold vote on child care unionization
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| In a blow to Gov. Mark Dayton and union supporters, a Ramsey County judge has permanently blocked a unionization vote by Minnesota child care workers. District Judge Dale Lindman wrote in an eight-page order filed Friday, April 6, that the governor "exceeded his authority" when he called for the union election. The proper way to deal with the issue would be at the Legislature, the judge wrote. |
Irish social workers are horrified by their ruthless English counterparts
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Such is the reign of terror now being imposed on innocent English families by social workers that scores of parents have been fleeing with their children to Ireland to escape their clutches. I have followed a dozen such stories over the past two years, and in all of them two things stand out. One is that the English social workers seem prepared to stop at nothing to get the children back. The other is the extraordinary contrast between them and the Irish social workers, who again and again have satisfied themselves that the children are at no risk from their... |
Child Care Providers To Unionize (CT: State Infiltration Of Homes to Begin)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Connecticut child care providers will be unionized following a vote announced Tuesday. The providers voted 1,603-88 to join the union, according to Matt O'Connor, a spokesman for CSEA/SEIU Local 2001. The American Arbitration Association, a neutral group, on Tuesday counted the secret ballots that had been returned through U.S. mail. O'Connor noted that the union had been trying for six years to organize the providers who care for children in providers' private homes. Nationally, 15 states have similar unions. Overall, about 96 percent of the Connecticut workers are women, O'Connor said. There are about 4,000 providers, covering all 169 cities... |
Judge blocks union vote for child care providers(MN)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| ST. PAUL, Minn.—A Ramsey County judge on Monday blocked a unionization vote by Minnesota child care workers that was to get under way this week, saying the issue must go through the state Legislature. Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued that the Democratic governor exceeded his powers with the executive order setting up the election. "If unionization of day care is to become the law of Minnesota, it must first be submitted to the lawmaking body of the state," Judge Dale Lindman said after hearing three hours of testimony. Lindman also said he was "bothered" that less than half of the... |
Minnesota Senate panel backs lawsuit trying to stop child care union vote
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration voted Thursday to file a "friend of the court" brief in support of a lawsuit seeking to stop an upcoming unionization election for in-home child care providers. The vote was 6-1 along party lines, with Republicans in favor and the lone Democrat in attendance, Richard Cohen of St. Paul, opposed. GOP senators argued that Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, overstepped his legal authority in issuing an executive order for the election. Filing an amicus brief does not make the Senate a party to the suit but offers support for the complaint submitted Monday... |
Minnesota child care providers sue to block unionization election
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Dayton, a Democrat, ordered the election two weeks ago so that providers could vote on whether to be represented by a union in "meet and confer" talks with the state. The order allows in-home providers who participate in state-subsidized Child Care Assistance Programs to vote on whether to be represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) or the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), depending on where in the state their business is. Ballots are scheduled to be mailed Dec. 7 to about 4,300 of some 11,000 in-home providers in Minnesota. They would be counted Dec.... |
Vote on unionizing in-home day care providers raises key questions
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Minnesota lawmakers got some answers Monday about a vote to unionize in-home child care providers, but with just more than two weeks before ballots are mailed, key questions remain. Chief among those emerging from a House committee meeting: Will any agreements reached between state-subsidized providers and the state apply to those who don't receive subsidies, and if so, shouldn't those who don't receive subsidies be allowed to vote? Meanwhile, there is an effort in Ramsey County to block a budget allocation for a nonprofit group linked to the union organizing child care providers. Gov. Mark Dayton touched off the flurry... |
Stand-up against the forced unionization of childcare providers(MN)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Governor Dayton reportedly made a promise to union leaders to sign the executive order in exchange for their support in the last election. Greedy union bosses want to skim union dues from taxpayer-funded subsidies designed to help poor parents pay for childcare services. And childcare providers are just the beginning. In other states, family members caring for relatives with disabilities have also been forced to join a union. |
‘Princess Nancy’ Pelosi calls Cain ‘clueless’; vows to do more for child care
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain drew applause and guffaws by referring to Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy” during a debate last week. Her reaction? “Really, it’s another one of those clueless statements — clueless in that you don’t say something like that,” she said in a wide-ranging interview in her office. “I don’t know that he had any malicious intent, but it trivialized the fact that I was speaker of the House.” You can disagree with the House minority leader, of course, or spend at least $65 million running 161,203 ads against her, as Republicans did in the past election... |
Dayton, GOP collide over child care union vote
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday ordered an election to allow Minnesota's in-home child care providers to vote on whether to unionize. But his executive order drew swift response from Republicans who vowed to sue to prevent the vote. "There is nothing in Minnesota law that provides the governor with the power to do the thing that he says he's going to do," said Sen. David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, who chairs the Senate health and human services committee. "And I think the real question for us is, what do you do with a governor who won't follow the law?" Dayton, a... |
Photo: (Milwaukee, WI) City's provocative new safe sleep ad
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Take a minute and think about this new ad that will be splashed across bus shelters around the city next week, city officials told those gathered this morning for a press conference. The ad, which depicts a baby with a knife tucked beside him in an adult bed, is intended to shock those who pass by because the message is critical Minutes before city officials unveiled the new safe-sleep advertising campaign this morning, the medical examiner's office announced that a 7-week-old baby was found dead after co-sleeping with his or her mother. The infant, whose gender was not released,... |
Minnesota's child care, averaging $9,900 a year, is among least affordable
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Minnesota ranks as the fifth least affordable state for prekindergarten child care, after New York, Montana, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. Minnesota is among the most expensive for child care partly because the industry is highly regulated by the state, according to Ann McCully, executive director of Minnesota Child Care. For example, Minnesota requires a lower ratio of staff to children than other states, which requires centers to spend more money on personnel. McCully said it can be difficult for centers to make a profit or simply break even. |
St. Charles woman uses heroin in bathroom while her children play at restaurant (Big Mac Land)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| (KMOV) -- A St. Charles County woman was arrested at a McDonald's on Highway 94 after leaving her children, ages 4 and 2, in a play area while she took heroin in the bathroom on Tuesday. According to police, Kelli Horton, 36, was charged with a possession of a controlled substance and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia. St. Charles County Sheriff's Department said Horton took her children to buy heroin in St. Louis, then drove to the McDonald's. Police said Horton left her children in a play area while she ingested two capsules of heroin in the bathroom. Police were... |
Salaries for Florida's child care officials are out of control, lawmakers say
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Florida's privatization of child welfare services was supposed to be good for kids and taxpayers. But in the decade since the state began making private agencies responsible for the care of abused and neglected children, one cost has soared — the salaries of top employees. Child welfare executives throughout Florida are now making six-figure salaries, with some topping $200,000 — double what state employees used to be paid to do the same work. "They should not under any circumstances be paid these sorts of outrageous salaries,'' said state Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Valrico and chairwoman of the Committee on Children, Families... |
Day Care Investigated for Sending 6-Year-Olds to R-rated Film
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| <p>A Texas day care center is facing a state probe over allegations it took a group of 6-year-olds to see an R-rated movie.</p> <p>Patrick Crimmins, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, confirmed to Fox News Radio that Young Expressions Childcare in Bellmead is under investigation.</p> |
Antioch baby girl dies after being left in car..(North CA)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| A 7-month-old girl was found dead in Antioch after being left in her family's car overnight, police said today.Sofia Wisher of Antioch was pronounced dead after she was found in her car seat outside the In Shape Sports Club on Lone Tree Way shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday, authorities said. |
Huge blow to Army as it faces £100,000 payout after tribunal backs single mother
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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Army chiefs face the nightmare prospect of having to consider their soldiers' childcare problems before giving them orders. The devastating blow follows a successful sex discrimination claim brought by a single mother. Tilern DeBique, 28, says she was forced to leave the Army because she was expected to be available for duty around the clock. She was formally disciplined when she failed to appear on parade because she had to look after her daughter. She was told the Army was a 'war-fighting machine' and 'unsuitable for a single mother who couldn't sort out her childcare arrangements'.
Washington State House Facilitates Union Take-Over of Private Preschools
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| So what’s the biggest threat to religious liberty? According to J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, the answer is found in the strings attached to government funding of religious activity. Earlier this month, during a speech for the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, Walker said, “What the government funds, it always regulates. Government-sponsored religion is always bad for religion. How can we raise a prophetic fist with one hand and take government money with the other?” The truth of Walker’s statement was underscored just last week when the Washington State House of Representatives passed HB... |
Baby survives alone for 3 days after parent shoots her in chest (due to fear of global warming)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| A seven-month-old girl miraculously survived alone for three days after one of her parents shot her in the chest - apparently as part of a bizarre murder-suicide pact blamed on global warming. The baby was discovered with a bullet casing in her chest and covered with blood by police in the Argentinean city of Goya, near the bodies of her parents and 2-year-old brother |
Forced Unionization: Michigan Home Childcare Providers W/O Employees (only "Management")
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Michelle Berry runs a day-care business out of her home in Flint, MI. She thought that she owned her own business, but Berry's been told she is now a government employee and union member. It's not voluntary. Suddenly, Berry and 40,000 other Michigan private day-care providers have learned that union dues are being taken out of the child-care subsidies the state sends them. The "union" is a creation of AFSCME, the government workers union, and the United Auto Workers. This racket means big money to AFSCME, which runs the union, writes the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market think... |
Price of depravity: Parents' fury as nursery paedophile Vanessa George gets just seven years' jail
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Mothers screamed abuse at nursery paedophile Vanessa George yesterday as she began a prison sentence that could see her freed after only seven years. One called the punishment 'a joke' and stormed out of court in disgust. Another lunged towards the dock and threatened to kill her. The dramatic scenes came as George, 39, was given an indeterminate sentence for 'plumbing new depths of depravity' by abusing children in her care. ..... The scant detail she gave police may never enable them to identify which children she assaulted while looking after babies and toddlers at Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth.... |
TV in child care 'damaging toddlers'
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Experts are warning child care centres to drastically limit the amount of time children spend watching television or ban TV altogether. Research by the Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital suggests children under the age of two should not watch any TV at all. The researchers have now written guidelines for the Federal Government as part of the Get Up and Grow guidelines to reduce childhood obesity. They are designed specifically for child care centres but also provide some advice for parents. Statistics show that four-month-old infants watch on average 44 minutes of TV each day and children under the age of... |
Middleville (MI) woman threatened with fines & jail time for watching neighbor's kids
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| MIDDLEVILLE (WZZM)- A West Michigan woman says the state is threatening her with fines and possibly jail time for babysitting her neighbors' children. Lisa Snyder of Middleville says her neighborhood school bus stop is right in front of her home. It arrives after her neighbors need to be at work, so she watches three of their children for 15-40 minutes until the bus comes. The Department of Human Services received a complaint that Snyder was operating an illegal child care home. DHS contacted Snyder and told her to get licensed, stop watching her neighbors' kids, or face the consequences. "That... |
L.A. County officials offer a novel idea to save millions
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| Supervisors suggest putting unemployed parents to work caring for their own children as part of proposed changes to CalWorks and other state government aid programs. With steep state budget cuts under debate in Sacramento, Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to push for changes to CalWorks and other government aid programs they said would save nearly $270 million. Included in their suggestions is a novel proposal: Put unemployed parents to work caring for their own children. "What we're saying is do not cut Welfare to Work outright: Target the cuts to the people who are the most expensive," said Miguel... |
First Lady Calls For More Family Friendly Policies
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:34:58 PM
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| First lady Michelle Obama says everyone should have what she has: a chief of staff and a personal assistant. Speaking Thursday in support of sick days with pay and flexible work schedules, Mrs. Obama said that, as challenging as her new life may sometimes seem, hers is a "very blessed situation, because I have what most families don't have" -- support from her mother and a staff. "Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants," she said at a meeting of Corporate Voices for Working Families, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to develop and... |
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