… caregivers without their consent to use it for politics — to try and lock the dues skim into the state constitution: It failed. Every newspaper in the state … becomes a right-to-work state, no union could ever force a worker to pay dues or agency fees as a condition of employment, and unions would be forced …
… nominee Tom Price. “End the dues skim once and for all.” Harris, … place, the union directly skimmed a portion of the Medicaid … What should be done? The dues skim operates in government programs … funds to collect so-called dues or fees on behalf of labor … convenience of a government-collected dues deduction. Much like every …
… help. These funds are being skimmed away by unions claiming that they’re entitled to these dues. Ensuring that money from federal … recommends ways to end this “dues skim” and increase support for … families. How to Stop the ‘Dues Skim’ of Federal Home Health Care … ongoing, national problem of dues skimming and recommends how to end …
In Michigan, the dues skim against home-based day care providers … Silverson ended in 2011. A similar skim against home health caregivers … that this case would end dues skims nationally. It has not. … process can escape paying union dues. Attempts to decertify these … FIOA laws. To help end the dues skim nationally, the Mackinac …
… cannot automatically deduct union dues from home health care providers, a … to “unionize” home caregivers and skim money from their paychecks. The SEIU … estimated $200 million every year is skimmed from the paychecks of home health … Center learned a decade ago of unions skimming funds from those caring for society’s …
… stealth unionization of caregivers and the ensuing dues skim.” Wright also told the Detroit Free Press that … ongoing litigation aimed at returning some of the dues money” skimmed by the SEIU, and he was cited by Fox News on the …
… Employees International Union on how the union hopes to continue its "dues skim" against home-based caregivers is interesting, but more significant is … representing some of those forced to be in the union, maintains that the skim was illegal because the caregivers are not state employees — they work for …
… Service Employees International Union, which took $34 million in forced dues from home-based caregivers as part of its dues skim, has received the second biggest campaign finance violation fine in state …
… would have locked into the state constitution the skimming of millions of dollars each year from the caretakers … Jack Spencer filed 70 stories documenting the dues skim from the beginning, including articles on the … summarized what happened: "In an effort to increase dues paying members, the SEIU targeted the Medicaid …
Washington Post columnist George Will cites Michigan Capitol Confidential and its coverage of the SEIU dues skim that took $34 million from Michigan’s most vulnerable residents in a column today about a U.S. Supreme Court case involving a similar scheme in Illinois. The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation …
… present for oral arguments in Washington, D.C., Tuesday in Harris v. Quinn. The stealth unionization scheme in question in the case is similar to the dues skim inflicted upon home-based care givers in Michigan, during which the SEIU took $34 million from Michigan’s most vulnerable residents.
… including family members, who have been seeing union dues taken from the checks they receive to help provide … get another contract extension. In fact, the “dues skim” could actually end sooner than that. In addition … Care Providers Took Place - Anatomy of a Scam: Dues continue to flow
… cannot be forced to pay union dues. The ruling meant that caregivers … became known as the SEIU dues skim. It was a scheme that had … and legal battle over the dues skim included legislative efforts … the onerous nature of the dues skim, along with a daily skim-tracker that displayed a running …
… with the home health care dues skim, each were fined $500 at … choose whether they want to pay dues or fees to a union as a condition … called the "home health care dues skim," was on its last legs, as … Anti-Right-to-Work Protesters Have SEIU 'Dues Skim'Connections And End Finally In Sight for the SEIU Dues Skim
… previously were forced to pay dues or fees to the SEIU after the … homes across the state. The "dues skim" ended in 2013, but not before … caregivers affected by the dues skim. It also is more than 80 … care of loved ones. The dues skim scheme was created in 2005 … scheme with legislation. The dues skim lasted from 2006 to early …
… states from deducting union dues from checks sent to home health … sometimes referred to as a “dues skim,” is currently allowed in … million in union dues was skimmed from Medicaid checks. In … challenge the legality of dues skimming. Michigan Capitol Confidential, … the end of the contract, dues skimming stopped. In the 2014 U.S. …
… reauthorize union’s ability to skim dues from Medicaid payments used … what came to be called the “dues skim” in Michigan. Before 2012, … million in funds, labeled “dues,” away from this vulnerable … attempt to enshrine the dues skim in the state constitution … unionized. Less than a year after dues skim ended in Michigan, SEIU Healthcare …
… Capitol Confidential was a guest Thursday on “The Vic McCarty Show” on WMKT 1270AM in Traverse City, discussing his recent story about the continued dues skim that has allowed the SEIU to take nearly $30 million over the last six years from Michigan’s most vulnerable families.
… Capitol Confidential reports today, however, that “dues” are still being skimmed from their paychecks. CapCon’s skim-tracker shows that the SEIU has siphoned nearly …
… a case related to union "dues skim" issues happening in Illinois, Michigan … Michigan's home health care dues skim. In Michigan, Illinois, … 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 …
… would enshrine the SEIU dues skim in the state constitution … Union since November 2006 has skimmed more than $30 million in the form of “union dues” from Medicaid checks that … judge’s ruling means the dues skim could continue until at least … “irreparable damage” if the dues were to stop flowing, saying …
… and have seen $32 million in “union dues” skimmed by the Service Employees International … The MCLF is asking that that the dues skim end effective today and the return of six months’ worth of dues, an amount that would be about $3 million …
… dollars is unconstitutional.” Home-based caregivers in Michigan saw the SEIU skim more than $34 million in “dues” from Medicaid checks meant to help our most vulnerable residents until …
… Michigan reported $5,398,383 in dues and fees in 2014. That's just … during which the union's dues skim was in place. The information … Standards. The roots of the dues skim reach back to the mid-2000s … have union dues and fees “skimmed” from the Medicaid checks … received no money from the dues skim. Its previous (2013) report …
… Michigan’s health care “dues skim,” has failed to file the … $250,000 threshold. The dues skim was created in 2005 when … home care patients as union dues and fees for the caregivers, … calendar year, during which the dues skim ended. It showed that 44,347 … end of 2013. Because the dues skim didn’t end until March 1 …
… Michigan to continue deducting dues from Medicaid checks and send … so-called "home health care dues skim" would go on through February … legislation to end the "dues skim," moved the final contract … Edmunds' ruling that the "skim" continue could be appealed. … Governor Signs Bill Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal SEIU Sues State, …
… this choice by ending the “dues skim” and then passing right-to-work. Dues Skim In 2005, former Michigan … membership, allowing them to skim “dues” money directly from the Medicaid … overwhelmingly and the “dues skim” ended officially in 2013. …
… Relations Manager 989-698-1914 MIDLAND — A dues skim that funneled more than $34 million to the Service … caregivers today will be the last ones to have union dues skimmed from them. The stealth unionization scheme … thousands of people who were trapped by the dues skim were family members caring for the state’s most …
… roots support, the illegal dues skim of home-based caregivers … its power to preserve this dues skim. Since their scheme was implemented … collected more than $34 million in dues from home-based caregivers … stopping this scheme. The dues skim lived on. Attorney General … this appeal. Meanwhile, the dues skim continued. The political …
… Michigan's home health care "dues skim" has ended. For the first … SEIU and, in turn, stopped the dues from being taken out of Michigan … Michigan Capitol Confidential skim tracker, an online scrolling … Commission is still pending. "The dues skim went beyond the usual controversies … Confidential of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation Seeks Return …
… ending the home health care dues skim, whereby Medicaid grants … held that requiring mandatory dues or fees from these health care … Harris v. Quinn, unions began skimming money from home health care … election, in November 2006, the dues began flowing to the SEIU. … insurance. Eventually the dues skim ended, Medicaid recipients …
The union responsible for skimming tens of millions of dollars from home caregivers has been placed … words, ”make sure Democrats get [elected].” The “dues skim” took $34 million of state aid meant for the … into a government union so it could collect their “dues.” In the process of running this proposal, the …
… allowed the union to keep receiving the dues. By midsummer 2012 other funding for … 2012. Of that, $11,307,314 came from dues and fees. The report shows that the … ~~~~~ See also: Union Money Helps 'Dues Skim' Stay Alive Michigan Capitol Confidential Coverage of the SEIU Dues Skim
This recent blog post by Jarrett Skorup about the SEIU dues skim and how the union is using the money not for collective bargaining but for political purposes garnered a story and editorial in The Washington Examiner. Read more about the issue here.
… the rule, which forbids union dues from being skimmed from Medicaid. The federal … portion of those checks for dues. Ostensibly, it was to compensate … where she’s fighting the dues skim. Congress can act to prohibit … being siphoned off for union dues — people get it,” she said. …
… no longer are forced to pay dues to instead voluntarily do so. … members. "The only question is the dues structure." The union contract … also made special note of a "skim-o-meter" that keep track of … Confidential Coverage of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation Seeks Return Of 'Dues Skim' Money SEIU Election Battle …
… last ones from which union dues will be deducted. Based on … seems imminent. In 2006, union dues started being taken from the … to bring about an end to the dues,” MDCH Director Jim Haveman … established to help facilitate the dues skim. Gov. Rick Snyder last year … Confidential Coverage of the SEIU 'Dues Skim' Voters Reject Forced Unionization …
The SEIU "skim tracker" has finally stopped. The scrolling money … last ones from which union dues will be deducted. "It has … friends in their own homes. The skim tracker won’t be removed until the end of the dues skim can be fully verified in … Confidential Coverage of the SEIU 'Dues Skim' Voters Reject Forced Unionization …
The SEIU has just passed $34 million skimmed from home-based caregivers. The “dues skim” began when the Service Employees International … down 56 percent to 44 percent last November. The skim is slated to finally end on Feb. 28 when the “contract” …
… familiar with the phrase “dues skim,” that’s because it was a … decade ago. Years before dues skim went away, home health workers … or received benefits from. Dues were being skimmed from their paychecks, and … 2013. But the old days of dues skim would return under Senate …
… of the home health care "dues skim." The audit also indicates … 2013 official end of the "dues skim,” the SEIU would have been … Based on a 2.5 percent take for dues and fees, the union would have … those who supported the dues skim, the targeted audience was … Confidential Coverage of the SEIU Dues Skim SEIU Membership Drops 80 …
… igan's “home health care dues skim” will continue at least through … responding to a question on the “skim” was forwarded to Capitol Confidential … reason for continuing to take dues from the checks of so-called … also: Union Money Helps 'Dues Skim' Stay Alive Government Incompetence … Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal …
… contract upon which the SEIU "Dues Skim" is based will end Feb. 28, … 2013. "Finally, an end to the skim is in sight," said Patrick … actual date upon which the dues payments will stop." In 2005, … Beginning the following year, dues started being taken from the … Confidential Coverage of the SEIU 'Dues Skim' Voters Reject Forced Unionization …
… was accused of nepotism. Meanwhile, Faville’s daughter, Norma Kersting, still is on staff at the union, with a $62,131 yearly salary. The SEIU dues skim is the result of the forced unionization of Michigan's home-based caregivers that began in 2005 when Jennifer Granholm was governor. Proposal 4 on …
… Council was created when Jennifer Granholm was governor. The MQC3 worked with the Service Employees International Union to manage the collection of dues taken from more than 44,000 home-based caregivers. The MQC3 created at least four employees with a combined salary of $177,000, according to state …
… about six months' worth of dues, or about $3 million. The … become known as the SEIU "dues skim" that began under the administration … were defeated on Nov. 6, the skimming of union dues could end permanently. … irreparable damage" if the dues skim ended. Wright said an unfair … Governor Signs Bill Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal SEIU Sues State, …
… 31,317,790.40 — Amount of money taken from Medicaid checks during the dues skim between 2004 and 2013 $200 million — Amount of money annually siphoned even after the dues skim was ruled unconstitutional 84% — Percentage of home care givers who opted …
… to get about $6 million a year in dues from workers who have been forced to … receive Medicaid checks, minus the union dues being taken by the SEIU. Minicuci checked … Providers Took Place - Anatomy of a Scam: Dues continue to flow 'Forced Unionization' … Intact - It's All About the Money 'Dues Skim' Ballot Proposal Proponents Cloud …
… behind the home health care dues skim, has been fined $199,000 for … Between 2006 and when the dues skim finally ended in early 2013, … which were to prolong the dues skim so it could continue to steal … attempt to keep the flow of dues it had been receiving from … articles about the dues skim and a skim tracker that tallied the SEIU's …
Under the dues skim, Medicaid payments meant to aid the elderly … was taken by March 2012. The skim, which began in 2004, was not … his or her provider. The dues skim was an effort by unions to … in Harris v. Quinn, the dues skim began on the West Coast and … discovered and publicized the dues skim in various ways. A “skim …
… diversion of so-called "union dues" from federal Medicaid checks … decision. The DCH began skimming a percentage of the Medicaid … continued to allow the SEIU dues skim to proceed, stating that … an opinion directing the dues skim to end immediately. The SEIU … from Stealth Unionization, Dues Skim April 10, 2012 May 2012 …
… outlaw the home health care dues skim, stopping the unionization … assistants and banning automatic dues deductions from teachers' paychecks. … and the home health care dues skim. King’s remarks show how … The SEIU pulled off the dues skim by taking advantage of Michigan's … Legislature attempted to end the skim by defunding the dummy employer, …
Millions of dollars in “dues” will continue to be skimmed by the SEIU from the subsidy checks home health care workers receive, many of whom are family …
… unionized, SEIU began collecting dues from the taxpayer-provided … called the “home health care dues skim.” So far, the SEIU has received … than $29 million from the “skim,” which can be used for various … end the “home health care dues skim.” However, the “skim” has … end the “home health care dues skim.” At issue is the continued …
… related unions appear to have spent $9 million on the skim, which has netted them over $34 million so far. … Sherry Loar and Dawn Ives, publicly protested the skim (see a Mackinac Center video of their story here). … Legal Foundation lawsuit attempting to end the skim.
… Jennifer Granholm, it forced unionization on tens of thousands of caregivers, skimming $6 million per year from them. With the scheme in place, Haynes in Macomb … free to provide them full-time care without the burden of illegal union dues.
… from the “home health care dues skim” keeps dropping; but the … it rakes in keeps going up. Dues from Michigan's so-called “home … workers” into the union. The "dues skim" officially ended yesterday … called the “home health care dues skim.” The union netted nearly $30 million from the “skim" before it was ended. Meanwhile, …
… Show" Thursday on WMKT AM1270 in Traverse City, discussing the illegal, forced unionization of home health care aides and the millions of dollars in "dues" money the scheme has funneled to the SEIU. For more information about this issue from Spencer and Mackinac Center analysts, please see here.
… clarifying that union dues skimming from TANF and CCDF funds … guidance could clarify that dues skimming is a misuse of TANF grant … that the agency finds dues skimming to be inconsistent with … continuing to misuse TANF funds by skimming union dues from child care providers’ …
… home-based caregivers. But even as the SEIU "dues-skim" nears an end, a faction of union leaders wants … Michigan Capitol Confidential Coverage of the SEIU 'Dues Skim' Voters Reject Forced Unionization Scheme Infighting … Providers Took Place Parents Forced to Pay Union Dues, Lawmaker Rakes In Healthcare Money
The Service Employees International Union will no longer be able to skim dues from Medicaid subsidies that go to home health aides, according to the Detroit … Capsule and The Grand Rapids Press. The SEIU took more than $30 million in dues over the last six years under the scheme. Michigan Attorney General Bill …
… wanting to know how the "dues skim" was created and put into … Almost $4 million has been skimmed since a bill that would end … International Union (SEIU). Union dues have been extracted from the … 4003 was designed to stop the dues flow, but it remains stuck … Parents Forced to Pay Union Dues, Lawmaker Rakes In Healthcare …
… ends the "home health care dues skim," money is still being collected … the horizon, it is hoped "dues skim” will officially be brought … Michigan Capitol Confidential's skim-tracker will not be turned … 1018, aimed at stopping the dues flow was passed by the legislature … Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal …
… the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, was a guest on “The Tony Conley Show” on WILS AM1320 in Lansing this morning, discussing the end of the SEIU dues skim. The union’s scheme funneled some $34 million from home-based caregivers over the past six years, trapping people who care for loved ones and family …
… underhanded union scheme that skimmed “dues” from those who were providing … that an almost identical dues skim in Illinois was illegal and … home-based caregivers and began skimming dues and fees from the Medicaid … before it was ended, the dues skim filled the SEIU’s coffers …
… Michigan's home-based caregiver "dues skim," which transferred more … numbers and importantly, increase dues collection. Cases sprung up … 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 …
… illegal unionization of home-based caregivers. After asking to be released, dues are still being skimmed from his mother's Medicaid checks.
… legislation designed to stop the “skim.” Unraveling the bureaucratic … emails, facilitating the union dues flow took up a good deal of … up to date and managing the dues and bi-weekly provider files." … Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal … Senate Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Worse Than Previously Thought …
… research, we’ve also successfully litigated to protect Michigan families against government overreach. The most notable of these examples is the SEIU’s “dues skim,” which allowed this government union to literally steal money from some of our most needy residents. We exposed this racket and eventually got it …
… issue is over whether the SEIU can forcibly extract dues money from people who are not state employees and who … block a new state law that would have ended its dues skim, Scott Kronland told Judge Nancy Edmunds that, … irreparable damage" because it would be denied use of the dues money in the upcoming election cycle. The alteration …
… Employees International Union, gets dues from tens of thousands of Michigan's … election. Continuation of the dues flow to the union is called the “home health care dues skim.” To date, the SEIU has collected … Bill 1018) drafted to end the “skim.” It has been sent to Gov. … the unionization behind the “skim” into the state constitution. …
… spent her life taking care of her son, Ronnie, and knew that the union could provide nothing to make his life better. So when she noticed that union dues were being deducted from the Medicaid dollars the family was getting to take care of their quadriplegic son, she took action. And won. Unlike the …
… are not required to pay union dues as a condition of employment. … to SEIU in the form of union dues, regardless of whether the … program, but not before SEIU skimmed $34 million away from disabled … could be required to pay union dues, even if they objected to the … in-home caregivers mandatory dues. This ruling will apply nationwide, …
… home health care workers in Michigan. More than $29 million has been skimmed off the top of home health care worker paychecks since the Service Employees … tracks. If the unions were delivering a service that was worthy of the dues they charge, they wouldn’t have to organize workers surreptitiously. If …
… Michigan child care providers had dues and fees deducted from the … back." Michigan's "daycare dues skim" lasted a shorter time than … caregivers. The daycare dues skim started in 2009 and was ended … Confidential of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation Seeks Return Of 'Dues Skim' Money SEIU Election Battle …
… end the withholding of SEIU dues from private individuals who … withholding of public union dues from private individuals who … than $30.3 million has been skimmed from home health care workers … Confidential Coverage of the SEIU 'Dues Skim' BREAKING: Attorney General Orders Home Health Dues Skim to End
Will the dues skim ever end? According to Mackinac Center Legal … Edmunds that has allowed the skim to continue. Judge Edmunds … could not be forced to pay dues to a public employees’ union … constitution to allow the dues skim. Michigan’s voters rejected … required to facilitate the dues skim that has allowed the SEIU …
… continue. But because of legislative and legal action, the days of the SEIU skimming money from caregivers is coming to an end. If Proposal 4 passes, that would be overridden and the dues skim locked into the state constitution. Which explains the SEIU’s interest, …
… stop the “home health care dues skim.” That represents more than … in support of stopping the “skim.” The other three are Senate … unionized, SEIU began collecting dues from their checks. The continuation … called the “home health care dues skim.” HB 4003 was passed by … Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal …
… to the “home health care dues skim” passed Thursday by the Senate … is to finally end the union dues being taken from those who … legislature had tried to end the “skim” last year by defunding the … years.” The “home health care dues skim” resulted from a union scheme … Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal …
… longer have so-called union dues skimmed from their subsidy checks … should not have been paying dues in the first place.” The SEIU was able to skim the so-called “dues” under a scheme that was concocted … language of the new law, the dues skim had continued. Michigan Capitol …
… to the home health care dues skim that funneled $34 million … of its members since the dues skim ended on March 1, 2013. … caregivers affected by the dues skim. Most of the members remaining … 2013 tally to account for the dues and fees it received from them … was created to facilitate the skim, had no authority over Medicaid …
… SEIU [but] we now pay monthly dues that are deducted from the … forced on people.” This dues skim resulted in an estimated … however, unions had put the dues skim in place in other states. … Some $200 million was being skimmed from home caregivers and given … new rule to reinstate the dues skim in many states. This would …
… in on “Home Health Care Dues Skim” to the tune of more than … involved wants to write the “skim” into the state constitution. … “skim.” The “home health care dues skim” resulted from a union scheme … These people are having the dues taken from their Medicaid checks. … Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal …
… Healthcare Michigan's finances now come from the union dues taken out of the Medicaid checks sent to Michigan … Care Providers Took Place - Anatomy of a Scam: Dues continue to flow 'Forced Unionization' Brings … Unionization Intact - It's All About the Money 'Dues Skim' Ballot Proposal Proponents Cloud Issue With …
… Help Program as a potential dues-producing source. Michigan's … participants into the union. Dues have been taken from the Medicaid … called the “home health care dues skim." The SEIU has taken more … that would eventually end the “skim,” the SEIU is resorting to … legislation to end the "dues skim" was in the Michigan House, …
… can decide to force all of the 60,000 or so home health care workers to pay dues to the SEIU, which can spend the money lobbying or on other activities — … harmless-sounding language can be slipped in. This would allow for the continued skimming of tens of millions of dollars from caregivers to the SEIU, which to date …
… from the Home Healthcare Dues Skim, and the tally is climbing. … details of the Home Healthcare Dues Skim. “I consider myself to be … Daniels. This [Home Healthcare Dues Skim] gives us even more of a … money to flow (in the form of dues) from the home health care … (HB 4003) to stop the flow of dues, but Senate leadership continues …
… on them, which was to allow dues to be extracted from their … Hole: Forced Unionization 'Dues Skim' Linked To West Coast Scandal … Forced Unionization 'Money Skim' Lead to Former ACORN Organizer … Employer Out of the Picture, But Dues Keep Flowing To SEIU SEIU … Senate Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Worse Than Previously Thought …
… checks and handing it over to the SEIU as union dues, thus ending a union scheme that took more than … Service Employees International Union gets its dues not from State of Michigan paychecks but from Medicaid … their own home. Since late 2006, the SEIU has skimmed more than $30 million from taxpayers and the welfare …
… Anne Schieber, describing the effects of Proposal 4 (2012) should it pass. The so-called "Collective Bargaining" proposal would continue an illegal dues skim from Medicaid checks geared towards in-home caregivers, who are often caring for disabled family members.
… for its work on ending the dues skim. Other recipients include … Center first coined the term “dues skim” after the Mackinac Center … automatically deducting union dues from home-based caregivers’ … ended the practice of dues skimming in Michigan, but the fight … found a loophole and began skimming dues in other states. In May, …
… Families and the Child Care and Development Fund. Despite Supreme Court rulings against the practice, several states still allow unions to siphon off dues payments from these funds intended to support home care and child care services for low-income families and the disabled.
… employee, says his union continued to take dues from his paycheck despite his multiple … “closed” shop. Mills still had to pay dues to United Food and Commercial Workers … law. But the union continued to take dues out of Mills’ paycheck. Mills works … after Mills opted out, the union took dues from him. This happened twice in 2022, …
… into the SEIU. As a result, dues from the taxpayer-provided … called the “home healthcare dues skim” Last month, Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation to stop the “skim.” It's believed administrative … situation. Meanwhile, the “skim-tracker” is continuing to compute how much union dues has been “skimmed” from the …