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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Unions are back with bill to give them private workers’ phone numbers, addresses

By Steven Greenhut  February 21, 2018

Despite a stinging rebuke from Gov. Jerry Brown last year, California’s union-allied lawmakers are back with a plan to force private employees working for privately funded organizations to provide their cellphone numbers and home addresses to any union organizer that demands them. The bill’s backers want to intimidate people into paying union dues, even though this legislation is a clear affront to the privacy rights all Californians are supposed to enjoy.

The new legislation, Assembly Bill 2455 by Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, applies only to new home-care workers, but sets a precedent that could apply to every type of private employee. Currently, under the Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act, the state maintains a registry of home-care aides and applicants so that it can assure that such workers have passed a background check, and are properly trained and licensed to work in people’s homes............To Read More.....

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