{"id":75,"date":"2006-11-06T20:43:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/75"},"modified":"2006-11-06T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T00:43:16","slug":"voting-no-on-question-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/voting-no-on-question-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting No on Question 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a harder time deciding on this question, simply because the information<\/a> on it is so sparse.\u00c2\u00a0 In short, this question would permit a union (SEIU, the Service Employees International) to represent home-based child care providers in negotiating with the state.
\nI finally found some good arguments in the blogosphere, including Blue Mass Group<\/a> and Left in Lowell<\/a>. I was particularly swayed by a commenter on Left in Lowell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The child-care providers aren’t employees.\u00c2\u00a0 They are small business owners.\u00c2\u00a0 They should have (and do have) a professional association.\u00c2\u00a0 That association can work with the state to guide regulation.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t see how a union would be the right way for these businesses to negotiate with the state.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be one thing if these workers were asking to be represented by the SEIU.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t see any evidence of that; I only see the SEIU aggressively trying to grow its membership.
\nThe Yes on 3 group spins the question as one that is good for children.\u00c2\u00a0 Their filing statement with the state closes with “Vote yes for our children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future.”\u00c2\u00a0 I can only draw another unflattering comparison to Helen Lovejoy<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t see how unionization of these small business owners will improve child care.\u00c2\u00a0 I find it much easier to imagine higher costs with more regulation.<\/p>\n

I do not believe that this law will improve the lives of children or the lives of home-based child care workers.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m voting No on 3 tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a harder time deciding on this question, simply because the information on it is so sparse.\u00c2\u00a0 In short, this question would permit a union (SEIU, the Service Employees International) to represent home-based child care providers in negotiating with the state. I finally found some good arguments in the blogosphere, including Blue Mass Group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}