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Reitz in The American Spectator

Commentary on SEIU defeat

… put an end to the forced unionization scheme of home-based caregivers across the country. Reitz noted the similarities of the case to a similar dues skim that occurred here in Michigan, and how Justice Alito, writing for the majority, echoed a point the Center made in amicus brief we filed in the c …

Wilcox in Detroit News

SCOTUS decision's Michigan roots

… Mackinac Center Legal Foundation first drew attention to in 2011. The Court’s ruling brings an end nationwide to the type of stealth unionization and dues skim that in Michigan took $34 million away from our state’s most vulnerable residents before it ended.

Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' More Than Matches SEIU '08 Obama Contributions

… Michigan's “home healthcare dues skim;” that would be enough. … unionization. Continuation of the dues flow from the forced unionization … as the “home healthcare dues skim.” The SEIU has now received … million in dues from the ongoing “skim.” If the “skim” continues through … Day, its take from the “dues skim” will have increased by $6 …

Washington Examiner Quotes Vernuccio

Supreme Court could take up issue of agency fees

… chosen not to be members of the union. Gov. Rauner’s decision was based in part on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Harris v. Quinn, which ended a dues skim from home healthcare workers in Illinois. Vernuccio believes that Gov. Rauner’s order and Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a related …

SEIU Extends Home Health Care Contract On Day Governor Signs Bill Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal

Questions surround signing that extends contract through February 2013

… as the "home health care dues skim" potentially in place through … Schuette ordered an end to the "skim" last month but the SEIU sued … received more than $30 million in dues and other fees deducted from … to Keep Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Money Flowing Attorney … Orders State To Stop SEIU 'Dues Skim' How the Forced Unionization …

Union Omits $12K From Disclosure Form That Was Paid to Keep Health Care 'Dues Skim' Alive

If payment made in 2011 and not reported, it’s ‘very serious,’ labor expert says

… from the "home health care dues skim," which has taken more than … operating and to keep the "skim" from ending last year. "Not … even happening. As a result, dues from the taxpayer-provided … Governor Signs Bill Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal SEIU Sues State, … to Keep Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Money Flowing Attorney …

Michigan home health workers would be protected from dues skim if right-to-work is repealed

Home health care workers are one group of people who would not be affected by right-to-work’s repeal

… what is now known as a “dues skim.” The SEIU was permitted, … had to pay only half of the dues required, or $12 per month. … would have to pay the full dues amount, approximately $24 per … Public Policy exposed the dues skim. Its efforts led to Public … about whether unions are skimming dues from their paycheck,” he …

Further Down the Rabbit Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal

SEIU officials who led charge to unionize unsuspecting workers are now long gone

… made the "Home Health Care Dues Skim" in Michigan possible. More … represented continues to profit from the “skim.” Michigan's “Home Health Care Dues Skim” has its roots in Los Angeles … getting that post. Nonetheless, dues from the “skim” are still flowing … with the “home health care dues skim” went far deeper than the …

SEIU Sues State, Governor to Keep Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Money Flowing

… 2006. A judge has put disputed union dues of $500,000 — the amount taken since … surprising that the union wants to keep its skim running,” Wright said. “The key to … government employee. The SEIU was taking dues under a complicated scheme started … General Orders State To Stop SEIU 'Dues Skim' How the Forced Unionization of …

New Law Frees Home Health Care Providers From Stealth Unionization, Dues Skim

Illegal arrangement that netted SEIU $29.4 million from the developmentally disabled comes to an end

… government employee union and have dues withheld — as a result of legislation … immediately stop the collection of dues from subsidy payments intended … have seen nearly $30 million skimmed from their payments over the … has been clarified, the dues skim must end,” he added. The arrangement that allowed the SEIU to skim from Medicaid payments to some …

Michigan Employment Relations Commission Fails to Correct Its Own Mistake in Unionization of Home-Based Caregivers

SEIU allowed to keep $34 million in forced dues after MERC dismisses administrative action

… million it improperly received in dues. MERC dismissed an administrative action … illegal and have a portion of the dues returned. “All of this could have … Attorney General Bill Schuette. The dues skim, however, was allowed to continue … the Michigan Constitution. The dues skim funneled more than $34 million to …

Proposal 4 Would Lock Forced Unionization of Home-Based Caregivers Into Michigan Constitution

Center attorney: ‘Dubious arrangement pursued for the sole purpose of allowing the SEIU to pad its political coffers’

… constitution, allowing the Service Employees International Union to continue skimming millions of dollars in dues from Medicaid stipends meant to help Michigan’s most vulnerable residents, …

Prop 4 Would Put Union Scam in Constitution

… with the union that extracted dues from every one of those checks. This union duesskim-scam” has funneled more than … stop this immoral financial skimming. The handwriting is on the … initiative to actually enshrine this skim-scam into the state constitution. …

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Home-Based Caregivers in Nine States Free from Union Dues Skim

Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed two briefs at the High Court regarding the case

… from paying compulsory union dues in a 5-4 decision of Harris … caregivers and the ensuing dues skim,” said Patrick J. Wright, … caregivers in Michigan saw the SEIU skim more than $34 million in “dues” from Medicaid checks meant … order that ended the illegal dues from being taken out of subsidy …

SEIU Skim Scheme Draws Media Attention

… Employees International Union to enshrine its dues skim from home-based caregivers in the Michigan Constitution … that the Center has exposed how the SEIU has skimmed more than $30 million in “dues” from the Medicaid checks meant to help developmentally …

Supreme Court Rules Unionization Schemes Involving Home-Based Care Providers Are Illegal

Mackinac Center represented workers similar to those in Illinois who were forced to pay union dues simply because they got state money

… elderly cannot be forced to pay union dues. The Justices ruled 5-4 in … "And it means that the 'dues skim' that the SEIU set up in … lengths to try to keep the skim alive. It relied on reticence … Confidential of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation Seeks Return Of 'Dues Skim' Money SEIU Election Battle …

Courage, Conviction Help Take Down Forced Unionization Schemes

… forced to give at least $300 a year in dues or fees, but they won't get health … Parrish. She purposely uses the term "skim" when she talks about that money being … state aid. Sound familiar? "The 'Skim Tracker" in Michigan was a great visual … active here.  She's now hoping to get "skim trackers" scrolling in Minnesota, Rhode …

Wright Discusses SEIU Scheme

… unionization of home health care workers by the SEIU and how the union has skimmed some $28 million in “dues” from those private workers. You can read more about the scheme here.

The End Is Near: 'Skim' Stopper Bill Headed To Gov. Snyder

State Rep.: Unions 'lying' to stop bill

… end the “home health care dues skim” is headed to the governor. … bill. “Closing down the dues skim is absolutely the right thing … over the “home health care skim.” He said that special interests, … unionized, the SEIU began collecting dues from their checks. The continuation … called the “home health care dues skim.” The number of alleged home …

skimTRACKER 'Forced Unionization' Dues: More Than $34 Million Taken By The SEIU

… HELP PROGRAM PROVIDERS, THE SKIM TRACKER HAS STOPPED BECAUSE … providers for the purpose of skimming dues from their ailing and disabled … first counter tallied SEIU dues skimmed since the union and state … third counter shows the dues skimmed since the governor signed … to Keep Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Money Flowing

Roots of SEIU Forced Unionization 'Money Skim' Lead To Former ACORN Organizer

… off the “Home Health Care Dues Skim,” a signature was required … union to be able to deduct dues from so-called home health … creating the “Home Health Care Skim.” In reality, many of these … private contractors. This “dues skim” started when former Gov. … Senate Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Worse Than Previously Thought …

Right-to-Work May Soon Come to Public Sector Workers Everywhere

… subject was the illegal dues skim from private day care providers … employees to be forced to pay dues or fees to a union to keep … employees are forced to pay dues or fees. In the years since … Supreme Court were to hold forced dues and fees unconstitutional, … see a drop in their fees and dues revenue from $3.1 billion to …

Union Activists Protest Opposition to Coerced Union Dues

U.S. Supreme Court to consider case next week

… government employees to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment. … to 2013, the SEIU had a dues skimming scheme by which the union … political, which makes the union dues teachers are required to pay … about whether to pay union dues, they are therefore forced … Center.” When the state stopped skimming money from home-based caregivers …

Unions Admit Forcing People to Pay Dues is Political

U.S. Supreme Court considers right-to-work for all

… able to force people to pay dues and in turn spend hundreds … employees in the state stayed on as dues-paying members. The other ninety … “free” of the burden of paying dues and ignoring the invaluable … proposal to continue the “dues skim” from home caregivers in … Convention that it needed the forced dues “because unions are effective, …

Home Health Care Bill Signed Into Law

… government employees union began to skim money from this payment claiming … therefore compelled to pay “dues” from this aid? This is the … unionize with 1,000 opposed. The dues began being skimmed in late … of those affected by the dues skim, the origins of the scheme … Opsommer indicating that the dues skim must stop immediately. “Private …

Attorney General Appeals Ruling That Allows SEIU to Keep Taking Dues From Medicaid Checks

… Union's "Home Health Care Dues Skim.”  On June 20, U.S. District … state had to keep withdrawing dues money from the Medicaid checks … called the “Home Healthcare Dues Skim.” The “skim” started with a stealth unionization … Governor Signs Bill Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal SEIU Sues State, …

'It's hard to believe the union could get away with something like this'

Ex-Teamster says it's 'thievery' that the SEIU is taking money he could use to take care of his mother

… about six months' worth of dues, or about $3 million. In 2005, … first check I noticed that dues had been taken out of it," … Governor Signs Bill Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal SEIU Sues State, … to Keep Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Money Flowing Attorney … Orders State To Stop SEIU 'Dues Skim' How the Forced Unionization …

Stealth Unionization Scheme Bleeds Medicaid

… family is being diverted to the coffers of the Service Employee International Union. The Hayneses are not alone. Under this arrangement, the SEIU has skimmed nearly $29 million from 56,000 Michigan home health care providers, most of whom are self-employed or family members caring for loved ones. In 2005, …

Father Taking Care of His Disabled Adult Kids Called An 'Idiot' by Proposal 4 Spokesman

The Arc Michigan Executive Director Dohn Hoyle resorts to name-calling against Robert Haynes because Haynes doesn't support forced unionization scheme

… care workers. The group was skimming money from day care workers … "unusual" and unprecedented dues skim work. On May 4, 2010, Robert … the SEIU.  We now pay monthly dues that is deducted from the check … At the time, the SEIU "dues skim" was almost unknown. Only … know he was in the union until dues starting coming out of his …

'Forced Unionization' Employer Out of the Picture, But Dues Keep Flowing To SEIU

Despite state officials' past certainty, some now unsure who actually 'employs' home health care workers

… of the “Home Health Care Dues Skim” appears to have peeled away.  … forced unionization continues. Dues are still being taken from … designed to end the union's dues flow. That bill was passed … remains in the Senate while the dues continue to roll into SEIU … Senate Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Worse Than Previously Thought …

Prop 4 Supporter Calls Dad 'An Idiot'

… union because the couple opposes paying “union dues” to care for their two developmentally disabled … a shell corporation designed to help the union skim $6 million a year in “dues” from people who care for disabled loved ones. …

Legal Foundation Defends Clients Caught in a Catch-22

… and Steven Glossop, to have even a portion of the dues returned and the union certification declared illegal. … care providers and graduate students. But the dues skim of home-based caregivers was one of the most … certification be declared illegal and that a portion of the dues siphoned away be returned.

Conclusion

The practice by some states of skimming union dues from federal funds appropriated to … from continuing the practice of dues skimming. Though guidance memos lack strict … rulemaking proposal to prohibit union dues skimming of TANF and CCDF child care funds …

Potential Legal Challenges to Rulemaking

… required to end union dues skimming from CCDF and TANF funds … rules prohibiting union dues skimming are not “in excess of statutory … rulemaking to ban union dues skimming of CCDF funds, ACF would … grants.[10] Eliminating dues skimming by rule would be simply … rulemaking that prevents dues skimming of TANF child care benefits …

Background

… consent before deducting any dues or fees from their wages.[3] … automatically deducting union dues from the TANF and CCDF benefit … amount of union deductions skimmed by state governments from … disposal to end these dues-skimming schemes and protect program … information, see: “End Dues Skimming: Protect Home Health Care …

Rulemaking Proposals

… prohibit the deduction of union dues from CCDF benefits: (f) Third-party … political fund. To prohibit dues skimming of TANF child care benefits, … the current rules union dues skimming is not “reasonably calculated … explicitly prohibit labor union dues skimming of TANF child care benefits. … successfully end union dues skimming of TANF child care benefits …

MCLF Defends Home-Based Day Care Workers

… diversion of so-called "union dues" from state subsidy checks … from low-income families. The "dues" were funneled to a government-employee … notified by mail that they were dues-paying members of the newly … mechanism for collecting “union dues” was through child care subsidy … owners stopped having dues “skimmed” out of their paychecks to …

Opt-in Requirement to Ensure Clear Consent

… take action to regulate union dues collection from CCDF and TANF … prohibiting all union dues skimming. Janus v. AFSCME held, … part, that forced payment of dues to a public sector labor union … merely regulating union dues skimming, would provide evidence … proposals to end union dues skimming of child-care benefits …

Our Accomplishments

… called for such a law. Dec 2012 Reformed union dues deductions Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation banning the use of public resources to deduct union dues from teacher payroll checks, which the Mackinac … and kept a real-time count, through an online “skim tracker,” of some $35 million diverted from Medicaid …

GOP-Dominated Senate To SEIU: 'Here's $4 Million'

… end the “Home Health Care Dues Skim” — will have enriched union coffers by $4 million. This “skim” resulted from a union scheme … continues to be sent to SEIU as dues. Overall, the “skim” has netted … Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal … Senate Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Worse Than Previously Thought …

Prop 4 a 'Money Grab'

… the forced unionization of home-based caregivers, from whom the SEIU has skimmed $32 million in forced dues.

Union Health Care Ballot Supporters Say They Have Enough Signatures for a Vote

Union claimed First Amendment rights in court; ballot promoters now claim it's to protect workers, patients

… supporters behind the scheme to collect dues money from so-called home health … as the home health care "dues skim" into the state constitution. … into their union and keep skimming taxpayer dollars for union … legislature tried to stop the "dues skim" by first defunding MQC3, … Governor Signs Bill Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal SEIU Sues State, …

Government Incompetence At Its Worst – The Tragedy of the Forced Unionization of Home Health Care Workers

… twists-and-turns of the “dues skim,” Schieber’s video truly … our kids in the form of union dues?” Robert Haynes, a retired … same union collecting the skimmed dues. No one from the group … Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal … Forced Unionization 'Money Skim' Lead to Former ACORN Organizer …

Stealth Unionization: The Walking Dead

… who were forced to pay union dues and agency fees to fund the … scheme allowed the SEIU to skim more than $32 million in dues and fees since 2005. This … final determination. The dues skim is therefore continuing until … lawsuits to both end the dues skim before February and to get …

The SEIU in Michigan: Home Health Aides

… to increase membership using government subsidies as a source for union dues, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) organized Michigan's home … workers found themselves belonging to a government employees' union, with dues skimmed from their clients' Medicaid subsidy checks. This video features Frank, …

Michigan Families Set Stage For Helping End Forced Unionization Schemes

Supreme Court ruled daycare, home-based caregivers not public employees and can't be unionized

… became known as the SEIU "dues skim" involved numerous twists, … Granholm was governor. The dues skim featured the forced unionization … forced unionization and dues skim would end. But the SEIU funneled … to keep it from folding and dues continued to be taken from … about the dues skim and a "skim tracker" that tallied the SEIU's …

Health Care Unionization Campaign Changes Its Story — Again

Ballot proposal avoids the one issue it is about: Money for the SEIU

… The Cover Story For the 'Dues Skim' Union Money Helps 'Dues Skim' Stay Alive Attorney General Orders State To Stop SEIU 'Dues Skim' SEIU Sues State, Governor to Keep Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Money Flowing SEIU Extends … Governor Signs Bill Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal Despite Law, SEIU …

SEIU's Vicious Circle

… Community Care Council that was set up as the dummy employer in a scheme to skim millions of dollars from Michigan’s most vulnerable families operates three … people it is supposed to represent so it can continue to operate and funnel dues money back to the union. Even though legislation was signed by Gov. Rick …

Free Press Live Chat on Prop 4

… caregivers into a government union. This ploy so far has allowed the SEIU to skim more than $32 million in “dues” from family members who provide care for their loved ones. Wilcox discussed …

An Analysis of Proposal 4 of 2012: The Unionization of In-Home Caregivers

… Michigan, allowing the Service Employees International Union to continue skimming millions of dollars in dues from Medicaid stipends meant to help Michigan’s most vulnerable residents. …

MLive Prop 4 Live Chat Transcript

… caregivers into a government union. This ploy so far has allowed the SEIU to skim more than $32 million in “dues” from family members who provide care for their loved ones. Wilcox discussed …

Appointments: A Rarely Recognized Gubernatorial Power

Which can have major effects

… to the end of the SEIU healthcare dues skim. Governors also make appointments … to what later became known as the dues skim. This year, MERC is expected to … Senate could have anticipated the dues skim. There is reason to believe few … extensive. ~~~~~ See also: SEIU Dues Skim Finally Grounds to a Halt

2013 In Review: Worker Freedom, Medicaid Expansion Took Center Stage

… decide if they want to pay dues or fees to a union as a condition … leave the MEA. The SEIU "Dues Skim" Finally Ends In April, … Union no longer was able to skim money from the checks and have … that would have ended the dues skim years earlier. Most of the … Senate Stops Home Health Care Dues Skim Confirmed: The SEIU Dues …

Michigan’s Laboratory for Liberty

Letter from the executive vice president

… rule that prohibits unions from skimming dues off the payments Medicaid sends … creative team gave it a name — “dues skim” — that is now universally used. We killed the SEIU skim in Michigan in 2013 and contributed … recommendations for the federal rule. The dues skim has given the Mackinac Center the …

What Heroes Might You and I Meet in 2015?

… first exposed what came to be known as the SEIU “dues skim”? Their willingness to come forward back in 2012 helped us figure out the skim, which helped us submit arguments to the U.S. Supreme … one that forced the Haynes family to pay union dues are against the First Amendment. There is one …

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Summer 2013 Edition

… Court Rules School Districts Cannot Use Public Resources to Withhold Union Dues Michigan Republicans Go Wobbly on Obamacare SEIU Lays Out Plan to Try and Continue ‘Dues Skim’ Oregon Study Suggests Michigan Medicaid Expansion Not Worth the Cost …

Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Asks Appeals Court to Correct Michigan Employment Relations Commission Error

‘Clients are caught in a Catch-22’

… million it improperly received in dues. MERC on April 11 dismissed an administrative … illegal and have a portion of the dues returned. “Our clients and tens of … Attorney General Bill Schuette. The dues skim continued after a federal judge … the Michigan Constitution. The dues skim funneled more than $34 million to …

A War of Ideas on All Fronts

The Mackinac Center Fights For Liberty

… rewards of Michigan’s forced dues regime. Iris Salters, former … Roekel at $460,060. SEIU Dues Skim Although Gov. Snyder signed … International Union continues to skimdues” money from Medicaid stipends … injunction, meaning the dues skim will continue until at least …

Medicaid Payments Should Go to Caregivers, Not to Unions

U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

… commonly referred to as “dues skim.” In Michigan, the Service … recognized it could obtain “dues” from home health care providers … members.   1. Objections to Dues Skim Generally Past experience demonstrates that dues skim would authorize a system … recent documentary film “The Big Skim,” in which providers tell how …

Unionization Case Before The Supreme Court Could Have Lasting National Impact

Harris v. Quinn could make all public employees eligible for right-to-work; case is flying under the radar

… freedom to choose whether to pay dues or fees to a union without … equivalent of Michigan's dues skim, which resulted in the SEIU … Confidential covering the dues skim after it was in place, most … Confidential of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation Seeks Return Of 'Dues Skim' Money SEIU Election Battle …

Worker freedom and individual liberty

… union over how it spends the dues it collects. For example, according … the NEA took $377 million in dues and fees from workers in 2021. … unionization scheme known as “dues skim” involving the SEIU.[28] … and Gov. Snyder ended the dues skim by clarifying that these … Proposal 4 of 2012, to enshrine dues skim into the Michigan Constitution. …

Mackinac Center Updates

… liberty into the European Union. Dues Money Returned Steven Glossop (pictured … check he received of all the returned dues that were previously taken out of his … Service International Employees Union skimmed money out of checks that were intended … work of the Mackinac Center, the dues skim ended and Glossop and Haynes received …

SEIU Sent Key GOP Senator $5K on Day Bill to End 'Forced Unionization' Arrived in Senate

Home health care unionization continues to this day

… end the Home Healthcare Dues Skim, under which the SEIU has … given to the SEIU as union dues. According to multiple sources, … 4003 in the Senate keeps the dues flowing to the SEIU. This dues flow amounts to roughly $6 … also: Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Worse Than Previously Thought …

CapCon 5 Year Anniversary

… was striking the language. CapCon helped educate the public on the “dues skim” that was taking money away from self-employed home help workers and day care providers and filling the bank accounts of unions. One of these skims ended legislatively; the other ended when voters rejected proposal 2012-4. …

Mackinac Center Heroes

Profiles of a few of the Michiganders we’ve helped over the years

… their will. Although the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation lost their case in court, the attention prompted the state to pass legislation ending the dues skim, and voters rejecting an SEIU effort to reinstate it.

SEIU Healthcare Michigan

A political amoeba. Seventh in a series.

… million annually in forced dues from this abusive arrangement.  … heart of the entire SEIU dues skimming controversy. SEIU-HM's … used to defend the whole dues skimming arrangement — a predictable … state law that allows forced dues while being lax about how those dues are used and accounted for. …

Proposal To Keep Forced Unionization Intact – It’s All About The Money

… union's "home health care dues skim," which has netted more than … what it’s all about — getting dues money from vulnerable disabled … public employees for payroll and dues deductions purposes. In virtually … the constitutional amendment would be having dues taken out of their checks and … people." ~~~~ See also: 'Dues Skim' Ballot Proposal Proponents …

U.S. Supreme Court Accepts Case to Give 'Right-to-Work' to All Public Employees

Court could end compulsory union 'agency fee' payments for government workers

… workers' right to not have union dues extracted, but agency fees … typically 80 percent of the full dues payments. Michigan's Mackinac … argue that without compulsory dues or fees, many workers will … describe employees who stop paying dues or fees under right-to-work … Fees Supreme Court Ends 'Dues Skim' Nationwide

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Summer 2014 Edition

… issue: SEIU Membership Drops 80 Percent After Dues Skim Ends Michigan Families Helped Harris v. Quinn … Credit Agency After Teacher Who Stopped Paying Dues Right-to-Work States Dominating In Job Growth Union … Double Debt MEA Still Chasing Thousands Not Paying Dues Or Fees Hypocrisy Over Private Organizations 'Profiteering' …

Despite Collapse in Membership, SEIU Poised to Go All-In in Michigan

$150 million campaign blunted by right-to-work law

… collapse in membership, driven by the end of the “dues skim” — a stealth unionization scheme that siphoned “dues” from funds meant for the sick and elderly — and … Since then, the national SEIU has lost 8% of its dues and fee payers, according to federal LM-2 reports. …

Proposal 4: The Unionization of Home-Based Caregivers

… members, into paying union dues for providing care. Mackinac … from Stealth Unionization, Dues Skim April 10, 2012 State Senate … The Cover Story For the 'Dues Skim' Union Money Helps 'Dues Skim' Stay Alive Attorney General Orders State To Stop SEIU 'Dues Skim' SEIU Sues State, Governor …

Stealth Unionization Discovered

… state was withholding union dues from her checks. She brought … been shedding membership — and dues money — in the private sector. … election. Then, they started taking dues out of the Medicaid checks … and at least $8 million in dues every year. Over the next … was soundly defeated. The “dues skim” ended in Michigan, and the …

Working for Right-To-Work

The meaning behind the numbers

… employees from mandatory union dues or agency fees. The Mackinac … members through unannounced dues skimming and limited opt-out windows. … government workers paying union dues has dropped by an estimated … number of employees paying union dues from each entity, then added … continue to opt out of union dues annually, illustrating the …

SEIU Election Legitimacy Questioned by Some Union Members

Union president's decision to allow mail-in votes to outgoing home-based caregivers upset some members

… was behind the “home health care dues skim” that took more than $34 million … an effort to recover $3 million in dues. That case is pending Zac Altefogt, … Confidential Coverage of the SEIU 'Dues Skim' SEIU Election Battle Hinges On … Place Parents Forced to Pay Union Dues, Lawmaker Rakes In Healthcare Money

Unionization Ruling Before The Supreme Court Could Be 'Huge'

Political consultant: Ruling could 'dramatically undermine public sector unions'

… to the home health care "dues skim" that took place in Michigan. … workings of the whole union dues thing. "Overall, it would … Confidential of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation Seeks Return Of 'Dues Skim' Money SEIU Election Battle … Parents Forced to Pay Union Dues, Lawmaker Rakes In Health Care …

Top 25 of 2014

Our most popular offerings of the year

… Membership Drops 80 Percent After Dues Skim Ends Legislators Block Low-Cost … Agency After Teacher Who Stopped Paying Dues MEA Executives Take Big Pay Raises … Governed MEA Says 8,000 Haven’t Paid Dues; Some Teachers Say Union Intentionally … SEIU Allowed to Keep Millions in ‘Dues’ Money it Siphoned Away from Medicaid …

Ballot Proposal Would Exploit Disabled Medicaid Recipients for Union’s Political Agenda

… as “government employees” and by skimming off a portion of these payments as “dues,” the SEIU quietly has taken more than … represent them in their home and is skimming off money intended for their children’s … The federal judge ruled that the skim could continue because the MQCCC and …

State Senate Passes Legislation to Define Home Health Care Providers as Private Individuals

Attorney: Ballot initiative to revive lucrative and illegal SEIU scheme would violate U.S. Constitution

… House passed a similar measure to end this lucrative and unconstitutional dues skim in June 2011, but the Senate did not act on the bill for nine months, … late 2006, more than 40,000 Michigan home health care providers have had dues extracted from Medicaid payments by the Service Employees International …

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Spring 2012 Edition

… Policy The Dangers of Painting Better Late Than Never: An End To the 'Dues Skim' Cutting Librarians and Therapists Would Save Prisons Millions UAW Member: … Districts Will Soon No Longer Be Responsible For Deducting Teacher Union Dues School Pension System Affects Everyone 1,200 Hours To Be a Lawyer, But 2,000 …

Mackinac Center Subject of SEIU Protest

Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association at issue

… in the Friedrichs case. SEIU was involved in skimming tens of millions of dollars from individuals … nearly all of those individuals stopped paying union dues. The organizers of this protest apparently wish to preserve their power to keep forced dues flowing. In litigation initiated by the Mackinac …

By The Numbers: 30 Years

… 97,000 — The number of home health care workers forced into a union that skimmed dues off of their patients' Medicaid payments. This scheme was ended by legislation … unions from firing workers who do not want to be part of the union and pay dues.

Ballot Proposal to Exploit Disabled Medicaid Recipients

… labeling caregivers as "government employees" and skimming off a portion of these payments as "dues," the SEIU has quietly taken more than $30 million … 61,000 providers. The federal judge ruled that the skim could continue because the MQCCC and SEIU have …

Activists United Against Union 'Power Grab' Proposal

Rally on Capitol steps focuses on giving workers right to choose

… prohibit workers from being forced to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment. Multiple … Glenn pointed out that being forced to pay union dues means being forced to support causes you might … Reforms Union Pushes Ballot Proposal To Keep 'Dues Skim' Alive 10 Stories Showing Why Mandatory Government …

The Murky Role of MERC in SEIU Scheme

… than 40,000 people, resulting in a $32 million dues skim since 2005. A study published by MCLF Senior … who were forced into a union and forced to pay dues for taking care of their disabled loved ones. Haynes … still waiting to receive his union card, which the dues are supposed to pay for. However, SEIU Healthcare …

10 Years Of Michigan Capitol Confidential Online

If CapCon doesn’t report it, who will?

A search for the term “dues skim” on the Michigan Capitol Confidential news site finds it appeared in … deal to “unionize” home caregivers and extract “dues” from the small Medicaid stipends the receive. … declared that unions cannot automatically deduct union dues from home health care providers. This one of many …

The New Republic Says Unions Are Making a Comeback

But the ancient magazine of political insiders gives no evidence, and Michigan numbers indicate the opposite

… themselves if they want to become a member of and pay dues to a union. Hundreds of union members protested … them at home. Critics called the practice a “dues skim,” as the union justified the takings as a form of dues collection. The union ended up paying damages to …

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Fall 2012 Edition

… Exist Health Care Unionization Campaign Changes Its Story — Again Legal Foundation Seeks End to Forced Unionization of Home-Based Caregivers SEIU Dues Skim All About Politics Proposal 5: The 2/3 Tax Limitation Tax Limitation Amendment Will Greet Voters in November In the News Obama-Promoted Battery …

Voters Avert Disaster by Rejecting Proposal 2

… leaders have tested the limits of outrage by even organizing caretakers of disabled family members and labeling them as “public employees” in order to skim dues off their Medicaid payments (a measure Michigan also voted down this election). Rejection of Prop 2 will only come as a surprise to those who believe …

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Fall 2013 Edition

… Goes After Local Teachers’ Union President MSU English Professor Threatens Students in Anti-Republican Rant SEIU Under Investigation over Prop 4 ‘Dues Skim’ took $35 million from Medicaid recipients Loss of Funding Not To Blame For School District Failures State, Media Encourage Playing the Lottery I'm …

Michigan Employment Relations Commission Rules Again that Graduate Student Research Assistants Cannot be Unionized

‘Recognized that our clients are students and not employees’

… therefore unenforceable. That ruling is under appeal. “We’ve seen public-sector unions trying to stretch the bounds of public employment in order to skim dues from more and more people and this was another attempt on their part,” Wright said. “It happened with home-based day care providers, home-based caregivers …

Who needs a vacation anyway?

… decision means unions cannot force people who work in their own homes to pay dues or fees simply because they receive government funding to take care of the … person this past January in Washington, D.C. The Mackinac Center put this “dues skim” on the map in Michigan, drawing attention to the unfair and illegal scheme. …

Mackinac Center Legal Expertise Gets High-Profile Recognition

… protect legal rights. The Foundation has helped discover and end the dues skim that afflicted home health care and child care providers. We’ve fought … graduate student researchers at the University of Michigan to pay union dues, and filed lawsuits on behalf of teachers trapped into paying a union even …

SEIU Healthcare Michigan is under trusteeship once again

Its second trusteeship in five years owes to ‘substantiated allegations of serious malpractice’

… members, usually without their consent, in a tactic widely known as a ”dues skim.” In Michigan, this diversion came to an end in 2012 when the state amended … home-based day care providers and home health caregivers to sign up and pay union dues. Henry wrote in her letter that the current trusteeship is made necessary …

You Had to Figure This Would Happen...

MEA lawyers blocking labor law reforms

… departments can no longer deduct union dues from the paychecks of teachers or other … Those school employees still owe union dues (or agency fees if they happen to not … The MEA, which is used to having its dues money collected for it by the school … initiative to reinstate their medicare dues skim, there will be a ballot proposal …

Health Care Workers Having Trouble Finding Union That Plays Fair

Union member: 'Thank God that Michigan is now a right-to-work state'

… was behind the home health care dues skim, which orchestrated the forced unionization … here who is currently paying union dues under these circumstances. Thank God … of providing service to earn their dues they'll just use bait-and-switch tactics aimed solely at trying to keep their dues flowing." The NUHW was formed in California …

Supreme Court Takes One Step Away from Forced Unionization

A blow to SEIU's recruitment scheme

… are not required to pay union dues as a condition of employment. … headlines, but this ruling on union dues (Harris v. Quinn) will have … to SEIU in the form of union dues, regardless of whether the … program, but not before SEIU skimmed $34 million away from disabled … Michigan — after SEIU’s dues skim was terminated the union …

And the Winner Is … The Mackinac Center for Public Policy!

… year, we were recognized for our contribution to ending the infamous dues skim, a scheme that allowed for unions to forcibly “skim” money off the top of Medicaid care providers’ paychecks. This practice …

A Lawyer You Can Love

Mackinac Center’s vice president for legal affairs, Patrick Wright, protects freedom by suing the government

… against her will, along with tens of thousands of others, through a dues-skimming operation. The Center filed suit on behalf of several small day care owners, resulting in court cases and ultimately, legislation to stop the skim. It was the first of three forced unionization cases; the others were on …