A home care agency in Tacoma, WA is forcing workers to attend union-busting meetings. During the mandatory meetings billed by the Korean Women's Association (KWA) as "workers' compensation trainings," new executive director Peter Ansara tells the workers that caregiving is "just a numbers issue" and expresses how "displeased" he is that the union isn't standing up for them.

Despite getting the same vendor rate as all WA state home care agencies, KWA is trying to reduce wages and benefits for home care workers who made around $10/hour. On Monday, mandatory union-busting sessions like the one you see here began under the guise of "worker training."

The footage of the meeting comes to a rather abrupt halt when a KWA staffer realizes what's going on, and forces the SEIU Healthcare 775NW member filming to turn off the camera. Watch:

Each year, KWA's In-Home Care Program provides 1.2 million hours of state and federally funded care to seniors, so they can continue to live at home with dignity and don't have to resort to institutional care (nursing homes or other residential institutions). Unfortunately, the once model labor-management relationship SEIU Healthcare 775NW had with non-profit KWA has turned highly contentious over the last three months, under the new leadership of Ansara.

"It takes a unique set of skills, knowledge, and abilities to administer programs to poor and vulnerable people," said the KWA director in a Tacoma Weekly article yesterday.

Apparently that 'skill set' includes union-busting?