Michigan Capitol Confidential reports today that since the stealth unionization scheme to force tens of thousands of Michiganders into the SEIU has ended, its membership is down 80 percent. More than 44,000 home-based care givers who were shanghaied into the union under a plan concocted during the Granholm administration have chosen not remain in the SEIU now that they have the freedom to decide.

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