… 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 …
Michigan’s home-based caregiver dues skim should be on its last legs with the rejection of Proposal … scheme, the SEIU has taken nearly $33 million from dues taken out of Michigan caregivers’ Medicaid checks. … Michigan Capitol Confidential Coverage of the SEIU Dues Skim
… businesses and unions. I think about that dues skim. [The skimming of some $34 million in union “dues” from Michigan home-based care givers … seek a refund of some of the illegal dues for its clients.] Once the truth was …
… Help Program as a potential dues-producing source. To date, … it would ensnare into paying dues are just family members of … continue to be forced to pay dues as if they were interested … like to say that those who get dues taken out of their checks are … It's All About the Money 'Dues Skim' Ballot Proposal Proponents …
… stranglehold on workers and their dues," Terry Bowman, a UAW member and president … night. "Union officials have wasted our dues on a project doomed to fail from the … for the Mackinac Center, said the skimming of union dues will end at the latest when the collective …
… about this landmark case here. Ending Union Dues Skim in Michigan In 2008, the Mackinac Center Legal … entered into unions without their consent, and dues were automatically taken from their paychecks without … that these employees cannot be forced to pay union dues or fees. The court agreed and freed over 35,000 …
… were forced into a union and now have part of their state subsidy checks skimmed off for union dues. A Meritorious Idea Oscoda Public Schools has come up with a revolutionary …
… using a shell employer known as the Michigan Quality Community Care Council, has “organized” self-employed home health aides for the purpose of skimming dues from their ailing and disabled clients’ Medicaid subsidy checks. The state House passed a bill to end this practice last summer, but it has not …
… year from the Medicaid money of the elderly and disabled in Michigan as "union dues." The union has taken more than $32 million to date from people who mostly … after reading a story in Michigan Capitol Confidential about the union skimming money from home help providers. ~~~~~ See also: Father Taking Care …
… disposable personal income in 2025, when the proposal is fully implemented. Proposal 4. Voting “yes” on Proposal 4 would constitutionalize the SEIU dues skim, costing home-based caregivers $6 million annually. Proposal 5 and Proposal 6 have uncertain price tags. As Michael LaFaive explains in his literature …
… caregivers in Michigan ended last March, but not before the SEIU was able to skim more than $34 million in “dues” from Medicaid checks meant to help our most vulnerable residents. The SEIU …
… award. The parents of two adult children with cerebral palsy, the Hayneses were the public face of the Center’s lengthy battle to end the SEIU’s “dues skim” and stealth unionization scheme that took $35 million away from Michigan’s Medicaid recipients. “I’m declaring that we’re not settling for what …
… since enacted into law, including significant net tax relief, cuts to corporate welfare, greatly expanded school choice, bans on unseemly union dues-skimming schemes, and of course the nation’s 24th right-to-work law. This isn’t the entire Mackinac Center agenda, but it would be a good next step. Hopefully …
… things. The proposals would have elevated union contracts above state law, mandated more industrial wind turbines, and allowed a union to keep skimming dues from Medicaid payments to home health care workers. Jarrett gave more than 30 speeches around the state warning about the effects of these proposals. …
… unionized, allowing $6 million annually to be skimmed from a program meant to aid developmentally disabled … legal options for seeking reimbursement of the dues money illegally taken from day care providers are … of several Michigan clients seeking repayment of dues money.
… passed at 7:30 p.m. "This frivolous waste of union members' hard-earned dues money was a futile attempt to turn back the clock to the now-discredited … Violent Most of the Arrested Anti Right-to-Work Protesters Have SEIU 'Dues Skim' Connections 'We'll Be at Your Daughter's Soccer Game'
… enacted significant collective bargaining reforms and banned the SEIU’s “dues skim” of day care providers. The Legislature kept up a good pace of reform … and equipment, banning the use of government resources to collect union dues and, famously, enacting the nation’s 24th right-to-work law. Since then, …
… enacted significant collective bargaining reforms and banned the SEIU’s “dues skim” of day care providers. The Legislature kept up a good pace of reform … and equipment, banning the use of government resources to collect union dues and, famously, enacting the nation’s 24th right-to-work law. Republicans …
… International Union to continue receiving dues money from the Medicaid checks of people … the federal Home Help Program as a dues-producing source. Under the federal … labeled as “home health care workers.” Dues started being deducted from their Medicaid … Intact - It's All About the Money 'Dues Skim' Ballot Proposal Proponents Cloud …
… constitution was where membership dues often went. For example: In … International Union and continued the skimming of tens of millions of dollars … they tend to lower the cost of dues and spend less time and money … strongly many of their forced dues payers felt about certain issues … on political issues. When dues payers can truly choose whether …
… requires those that wish to have union dues deducted from their paychecks confirm … word that an employee wishes to have dues withheld from his or her pay. SEA … employees to leave a union and stop paying dues at any time, and thereby prevents schemes, … as wide-ranging as reimposing the dues skim on home health care workers and …
… Act, private-sector unions are allowed to extract dues and fees from workers if the employer is a unionized … and condition of employment; third, union takes dues (read: taxpayer money) and starts the cycle all … to be forced to pay money to the SEIU. The "dues skim" lead to a legislative fight, an attempted ballot …
… Healthcare Michigan. The SEIU takes union dues from the Medicaid subsidies paid to … County and Municipal Employees. Union dues were skimmed from subsidy checks sent to day care … over the illegal withholding of those dues, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder effectively …
… Michigan Capitol Confidential reported about the 'dues skim' from Michigan home health care providers to … the vast majority's only involvement is to have dues extracted from their checks that is then sent to … your home health care workers are having union dues extracted from Medicaid checks? Also, how many …
… the majority (more that 44,000) of those paying dues to the union are home-based caregivers who take … Michigan, is using Proposal 4 to try to keep the dues flowing by locking the scheme into the state constitution. … Home-Based Caregivers Infighting at the SEIU SEIU Dues Skim All About Politics
… employee that could be unionized and forced to pay dues. It took over a year and a half for us to prevail, … Service Employees International Union was skimming dues from the governmental aid the Haynes received … employees and should not be forced to pay union dues and fees. Without citing our work, the Supreme …
… law is vital to performing our mission. In just the last year, CapCon has used FOIA requests to break the following stories and more: The SEIU “dues skim,” which has taken more than $30 million from home health care workers, many of them taking care of their own relatives. The multi-million dollar …
… voters Tuesday, including two that received heavy union backing that would have locked collective bargaining for government union employees and a dues skim that has taken $32 million from Michigan’s most vulnerable residents into the state constitution. “Today, the voters of Michigan sent a clear message,” …
Though Michigan’s gubernatorial candidates differ on issues like right-to-work, the SEIU dues skim and government regulations, the apparent contrast between their campaign finance reports could come as a surprise to many. Lists of campaign contributions to former Congressman Mark Schauer, the Democratic …
… right-to-work, or win a big high-court case, such as one that involves a union skimming the dues of home care workers. But they have been less effective at making sure that …
… budgeting matters are political. Due in large part to the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation’s work exposing the home day care and home caregivers dues skims, in 2014, the Supreme Court refused to extend Abood to allow agency fees to be imposed on those types of workers. Instead the court actively questioned …
… caregivers. The White House thanked the Mackinac Center for our “fantastic report,” which provided a roadmap for the federal government to end the dues skim. A host of bills moving through the Legislature gets rid of unnecessarily licensing regulations and will make it easier for people to find work. …
… caregivers. The White House thanked the Mackinac Center for our “fantastic report,” which provided a roadmapfor the federal government to end the dues skim. A host of bills moving through the Legislature gets rid of unnecessarily licensing regulations and will make it easier for people to find work. …
… state, secured historic pension reform, expanded educational options for students, eliminated wasteful corporate subsidies, killed the abhorrent SEIU dues skim in Michigan and ended Gov. Whitmer’s attempt to govern by emergency indefinitely. Working with these fine people — it’s the best job I ever had. …
… there’s a causal relationship between one or more news stories and a move in policy in our preferred direction. Examples include ending the SEIU dues skim against vulnerable people, changing a legacy media false narrative regarding then-Gov. Rick Snyder’s education budgets, ending corporate welfare …
… loyalty. This new law clears things up. 20. No more dues for the illegal day care and home health care union. The … day care providers and the home health care "dues skim" are over. The latter "skim" resulted in $7 million annually being funneled …
… business tools and equipment. 10. SEIU Membership Drops 80 Percent After Dues Skim Ends Once they were free to choose for themselves whether to pay dues money to the SEIU union, most home-based caregivers in Michigan quickly …
… unions to forcibly collect fees or dues from public employees. But last month, … to choose between paying full union dues or, if they resigned from the union, … generally around 75 to 80 percent of full dues. Though Janus does not affect private … money from home health aides in a dues-skim operation had been reversed by legislation, …
… whether to be members and pay dues to unions. Since then, nine … loss in union membership and dues. Below is a summary of union … membership; we only count full, dues-paying, voting members). Political … Operating Engineers 324 had 15,007 dues payers in 2012, but it was … Legislature ending the “dues skim” (automatic unionization), …
… private home day care, called her a government worker, and started taking dues from her. And the SEIU is still skimming $30 million and counting from parents like Rob and Pat Haynes, who care …
… private home day care, called her a government worker, and started taking dues from her. And the SEIU is still skimming $30 million and counting from parents like Rob and Pat Haynes, who care …
… claim home-based day care owners were government workers, and started taking dues from them. Some $4 million was taken before the scheme ended after an 18-month … battle led by the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation. And the SEIU is still skimming $30 million and counting from people, including parents, who care for …
… employee unions is the inherent conflict of interest of unions extracting dues to pay officials to set worker compensation — and this is exacerbated at … assaulting students; and A conspiracy between a union and elected officials to skim more than $32 million from disabled poor people’s Medicaid checks. The …
… money. Transparency laws are important. In just the few years we have used FOIA requests to break dozens of major news stories. Exposing the SEIU “dues skim,” where the union teamed up with the administration of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm to take more than $32 million from home-based caregivers — most …
… It should be their choice. I’m glad the Mackinac Center lets people know they now have a choice. When I heard about the organization that was skimming dues from hard-working people that were simply taking care of their loved ones in their own homes, I found that despicable. Giving people the choice …
… sure that unions were financially viable to act as a bargaining agent. Perhaps due to the Mackinac Center’s work in exposing the home day care dues skim, the Supreme Court had begun to question the assumptions behind the Abood ruling. Just two years ago, in Harris v. Quinn, the Supreme Court chose …
… people affected had no idea they were even in a union. Nevertheless, unions skimmed tens of millions of dollars in dues from government subsidies meant for the poor and disabled before legislators …
… effective and have a national impact, while not losing touch with its supporters. Finally, they take pride in the Center’s work in uncovering the dues-skim that took money from health aides. It is for these reasons and many others that the Zakos are members of the Mackinac Center Legacy Society. They …
… News, April 1, 2022), https://perma.cc/A2M7-JS7P. 28 A brief summary of dues skim and its connection to right to work can be found here: Jarrett Skorup, “How Right-to-Work and the End of the 'Dues Skim' Killed the SEIU in Michigan” (Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Nov. …
… Healthcare Michigan. The SEIU takes union dues from the Medicaid subsidies paid to … by the UAW and AFSCME. These union dues were skimmed from a federal day care subsidy grant … over the illegal withholding of union dues from private day care providers’ subsidy …
… expiration date — and collect dues for a government-sector union. “The union dues are still being withheld and … preserve it for the sake of skimming ‘union dues’ from independent contractors.” … contractors were compelled to become dues-paying members of SEIU Healthcare …
… combination of back property taxes and dues to state and national affiliates, according … reported. The $1.5 million in late dues to the state and national affiliates … The union also has seen a drop in dues of about $1 million annually as membership … made a number of budget cuts and skimmed and trimmed the fat," Patrick told …
… virtually indistinguishable from union dues. Worse, Day remembered the work rules … stopped collecting illegal “union dues” from federal day care subsidies. … be forced into a union that could skim “fees” from her stipend and jeopardize … and led to over $1,000,000 in annual dues going to union coffers. Yet there …
… members. Similar to private child care provider unions in other states, union dues would be skimmed from government child care subsidy checks. There are two vastly divergent …
… R-Saginaw, well-known to CapCon readers as the politician who for 10 months prevented the Senate from enacting a House-passed bill to end a notorious SEIU "dues skim" of home health care aides. Along with 11 other Senate Republicans, Sen. Kahn voted for the transformational reform on May 17 before voting against …
… FOIA bills. ~~~~~ In the past few years, Michigan Capitol Confidential has used FOIA requests to break the following stories. Exposing the SEIU “dues skim,” where the Service Employees International Union created a scheme during the administration of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm to take more than $34 million …
… whether the interlocal agreement required prior approval by the Legislature. With a few notorious exceptions (such as the home health care provider dues skim created later by Gov. Granholm), most interlocal agreements are unremarkable devices used to avoid red tape in certain government services, such …
… the charge on. John and Martha think that the sound research and voice the Mackinac Center provides has made wins like right-to-work, ending the dues skim, and advancing school choice possible by networking individuals and providing them with intellectual ammunition. In the end, protecting and enlightening …
… the union should "change its ways, not raise its dues." The editorial stated, "The union's quest for … Press, "MEA should change its ways, not raise its dues," May 17, 2004 https://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/051704/opi_051748.shtml … to uncover the extent of the operation, which skimmed $3 million from construction contracts in the …
… ended the SEIU’s unconscionable skimming of so-called dues dollars from Medicaid recipients without … Gov. Snyder pulled the plug on the skim. Our success laid the groundwork for … Supreme Court, which outlawed similar skims nationwide. You could even make a …
