A unions dream - "Owning a President"!!

When the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) wants something now --- they just call their wholly owned subsidiary man in the White House apparently..... as reported by the LA Times:

U.S. threatens to rescind stimulus money over wage cuts

The Obama administration threatens to rescind billions in stimulus money if Gov. Schwarzenegger and lawmakers do not restore wage cuts to unionized home healthcare workers.

By Evan Halper May 8, 2009

Reporting from Sacramento -- The Obama administration is threatening to rescind billions of dollars in federal stimulus money if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers do not restore wage cuts to unionized home healthcare workers approved in February as part of the budget.

Schwarzenegger's office was advised this week by federal health officials that the wage reduction, which will save California $74 million, violates provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Failure to revoke the scheduled wage cut before it takes effect July 1 could cost California $6.8 billion in stimulus money, according to state officials.

The wages at issue involve workers who care for some 440,000 low-income disabled and elderly Californians. The workers, who collectively contribute millions of dollars in dues each month to the influential Service Employees International Union and the United Domestic Workers, will see the state's contribution to their wages cut from a maximum of $12.10 per hour to a maximum of $10.10.

The SEIU said in a statement that it had asked the Obama administration for the ruling.

Now then Pilgrims, how about that last sentence -- Time was when such string pulling was done, it was done behind closed doors, but apparently the SEIU sees a benefit (Recruiting?) of boasting about their new White House boy-toy!!!

(For the full article, go to:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-health-cuts8-2009may08,0,4592200.story