We’ve mentioned before the argument being made by unions in California that non-medical school personnel should be restricted from administering life-saving injections to epileptic children. Big Labor is ratcheting up the fight by attempting to thwart a bill that would allow this life-saving measure for the state’s 63,000 epileptic students. The unions are against the measure, despite the fact that there are no medical risks whatsoever for non-nurses to be trained to deliver the injections. According to medical experts, even if the drug in question is administered unnecessarily, there are no ill effects. However, jobs are at stake. And while California is bleeding red ink, the unions are not interested in the health of children, or the prospects for taxpayers, but only the welfare of the few school nurses who would keep their jobs if the bill fails.
