Judge won't stop Minnesota from negotiating with home-care workers union
Source: Star Tribune
RANDY FURST
Judge says injunction would be ‘unwarranted intrusion’ into state’s affairs
U.S. District Judge Michael Davis refused Wednesday to issue an expedited injunction to prevent the state of Minnesota from negotiating a contract with newly unionized home health care workers, saying it was unlikely union opponents will win their case in court.
Davis, the state’s chief federal judge, said such an injunction would delay implementation of a state law passed by the Legislature “after full debate” and would constitute “an unwarranted intrusion” by both the federal government and judiciary into the state’s affairs.
The Service Employees International Union won an election on Aug. 26 to represent the state’s 27,000 home health care workers, the largest successful unionization campaign in Minnesota since the passage of the federal Wagner Act in 1935.
Attorneys for the National Right to Work Committee, an anti-union organization headquartered in Virginia, sought to block the union election in August, and when Davis rejected their effort, it renewed its request for injunction to prevent negotiations after the ballots were counted.
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In August, home care workers, including Sumer Spika (at podium.) announced that in-home health care providers in Minnesota had voted to unionize.
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