The Health Care Union Transparency, Accountability & Union Member Right to Vote Act will give health care workers the right to vote on how their hard-earned dues money is spent on political campaigns, and will provide more transparency and accountability for health care workers.
Gives health care workers the right to vote on how their dues are spent on ballot measure campaigns. Large health care unions would be required to get a vote of approval from their members before they can spend more than $1 million on a statewide ballot measure or $100,000 or more on a local ballot measure.
Adds more transparency and accountability by requiring large health care unions to provide their members a detailed account of how their dues are spent on campaigns and politics every year — by mail and email — including the per member cost of that political spending.
Right now, health care union members have little to no say on how their dues are spent and there is very little transparency or accountability.
Labor unions have a right to spend money on political issues and measures. But union members also have the right to vote on deciding how their dues money should be spent and a right to know exactly where their hard-earned dues money is going, including ballot measure spending.
In the past 15 years, a few large special interest health care union leaders have proposed dozens of cynical and unnecessary state and local ballot measures threatening patient access to quality health care at hospitals, health clinics, doctors’ offices, and other medical providers. These measures also threaten the health care jobs of the very members they are supposed to represent.
Since 2012, the leader of one large California health care union alone has been behind 35 state and local ballot initiatives in California — spending more than $73 million of health care workers’ dues money to push unnecessary and risky initiatives … with most of them failing. That amounts to more than $700 per member.
These large health care unions spend their members’ dues money without getting approval and they are not required to tell their members how they are spending their dues money.
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