… practical impact (other than the SEIU cashing in) isn’t standing … firsthand that lawmakers and the SEIU are back to using the same … mistakenly) getting invited to an SEIU rally on the steps of the Capitol. … spoke with reporters as the SEIU looked on. A common theme … forced to pay union dues and SEIU membership plummeted, funding …
… the Care Council in 2011. The SEIU tried to continue the skim … that vote. In under a year, SEIU lost tens of thousands of members, … Clair Shores, rallied with the SEIU at the state Capitol after … In 2022, the Michigan State SEIU Council donated $21,000 to … $71,500 in 2022. In 2008, SEIU spent $85 million to support …
… Center and other critics dubbed a “dues skim.” The SEIU took money from people who were helping the disabled … had involved a dummy employer against which the SEIU would bargain for payments, and caregivers not … increased since then, despite caregivers not paying the SEIU. In the 2012-13 fiscal year the Legislature appropriated …
… Care Council. This allowed the SEIU to attempt to unionize them. … was held. Despite this, the SEIU was selected to act as home … was highly profitable for the SEIU. From home healthcare workers … the Care Council in 2011. The SEIU, refusing to concede, funded … made clear. In under a year, SEIU lost tens of thousands of members, …
… government workers, have seen a loss of more than half their members. The SEIU, which mostly represents workers in health care and local government, is … Democratic Party. In fighting in 2012 against a law allowing workers to opt out, SEIU Healthcare Michigan President Marge Faville said unions needed the forced …
… November 2006 and February 2013. The dues skim ended in March 2013, when the SEIU’s contract expired. “The checks mailed in March are expected to be the last … reported back then. The same day Hertel submitted Senate Bill 790, the SEIU announced plans to spend $200 million to re-elect President Joe Biden. …
… Bennett v. Council 31 of the AFSCME, AFL-CIO, 991 F.3d 724 (7th Cir. 2021); Fischer v Governor of N.J., 842 F. App’x 741 (3d Cir. 2021), Oliver v. SEIU Loc. 668, 830 F. App’x 76 (3d Cir. 2020), Belgau v. Inslee, 975 F.3d 940 (9th Cir. 2020). While these challenges to dues deductions have failed, they …
… Conservation Voters And of course, union representatives: Steve Claywell, the president of the Michigan Building Trades Council Ray Sholtz, the president of SEIU Michigan According to the executive order: “The Council’s membership should reflect the socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, occupational, …
… employees. Why would lawmakers leave a glaring problem unaddressed? A 2018 memo on public policy priorities, co-authored by the AFSCME, AFT, NEA and SEIU labor unions, sheds light. The joint memo considers it counterproductive to solve the free-rider dilemma. In the eyes of the union, to leave free-riders …
… Priorities for Partner Unions” (AFSCME, AFT, NEA and SEIU), https://perma.cc/2D5M-NB7B. 24 Joseph G. Lehman, … Right-to-Work and the End of the 'Dues Skim' Killed the SEIU in Michigan” (Mackinac Center for Public Policy, … Jarrett Skorup, “Despite Collapse in Membership, SEIU Poised to Go All-In in Michigan” (Mackinac Center …
… why union organizing falls by approximately 50% in states that adopt a right-to-work law.[35] [*] “HCF Inc. d/b/a Shawnee Manor and District 1199 SEIU, The Health Care and Social Service Union, AFL–CIO, Petitioner (Case 8–RC–15261),” (The National Labor Relations Board, Aug. 27, 1996), https://perma.cc/42RP-JF8X. …
… as “dues skim” involving the SEIU.[28] The union worked with … government subsidies. The SEIU and Granholm administration … and forced to pay dues to the SEIU. These caregivers received … were not state employees, the SEIU launched a ballot initiative, … the union, workers fled the SEIU in droves. By 2020, SEIU Michigan …
… to the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, in what is now known as a “dues skim.” The SEIU was permitted, during the administration of former … says, to learn that she won’t be forced to pay the SEIU, even if lawmakers repeal right-to-work. That’s …
… Supreme Court ruling, the nation’s four largest government unions — AFSCME, SEIU, NEA and AFT — have lost almost 219,000 union members. The Janus decision … brought by Pennsylvania government employees forced major unions — including SEIU, PSCOA, UFCW and AFSCME — to drop resignation restrictions from state contracts. …
… with their care. Last year, we were put into the SEIU without our knowledge. In our view, we are not … but parents to our children. We didn’t join the SEIU [but] we now pay monthly dues that are deducted … skim, more than 80% of home caregivers left the SEIU Healthcare Michigan union. The union convinced …
… of members. The Michigan Education Association is down 31%. Michigan Teamsters show a loss of 32%. The state AFSCME branch is down nearly 50%. And SEIU has lost almost two-thirds. A decline in manufacturing employment drives some of this loss. But over the past decade, several states began offering …
SEIU Healthcare Michigan is under a trusteeship for the second … The letter, available on SEIU’s website, says that new trustees … effective April 27. Their job, SEIU International President Mary … fund are not misappropriated. SEIU Healthcare Michigan was also … malpractice. In the early 2000s, SEIU locals across the country, …
… journalism” when 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 …
… to unionize them. First, the SEIU lobbied the state to create … providers in Michigan. The SEIU then bargained with that “employer” … members — was redirected to the SEIU as dues. By 2012, the SEIU had successfully redirected … unionized. In less than a year, SEIU Health Care Michigan’s membership …
… right-to-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 …
… Michigan. Before 2012, the SEIU had quietly worked with the … care for. Despite this, the SEIU negotiated with the state agency … caregivers voted. By 2013, the SEIU had successfully diverted over … Michigan’s citizens also rejected an SEIU-backed attempt to enshrine … dues skim ended in Michigan, SEIU Healthcare Michigan’s membership …
… evidence. And a long line of Supreme Court cases makes clear that the waiver of a constitutional right does not continue in perpetuity. In Knox v. SEIU, the court affirmed that the factors influencing a party’s decision to support a union may change over time, and that a fresh opportunity to affirm …
… small amount of money through a federal program meant to help provide care for the disabled or those with special needs in their own homes. But to the SEIU, one of the largest unions in the country, all of this was just another way to make a buck. With the help of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, it forced …
… Education Association (NEA); and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Specifically, active workers contributing to these unions fell by 2.9% for the SEIU, 3.9% for the NEA, 6.2% for AFT and 7.8% for AFSCME. And the drop in union membership is even larger in states that do not have their own right-to-work …
… left their organizations in droves. The Michigan Education Association has lost one-third of its membership. The state AFSCME branch is down 37%. The SEIU has lost more than 50%. Each state government employee union is down at least 15% in membership. And this is at a time of sustained job growth. Many …
The SEIU is making a huge political investment to defeat President Donald Trump … members or paying fees to a union, SEIU Michigan has lost 51% of its members and SEIU Healthcare Michigan has lost 84% of … their unions. Since then, the national SEIU has lost 8% of its dues and fee payers, …
… discovered that the Service Employees International Union was automatically deducting union dues from home-based caregivers’ Medicaid payments. The SEIU had unionized thousands of home health care workers, unbeknownst to them, and siphoned tens of millions of dollars into its coffers. The Mackinac Center …
… “Blue-Green Divide.” For example, some unions — like the SEIU — appear to have put politics over the needs of … building trades union may be concerned, but the SEIU’s decision to put politics over the workers they … million on politics and lobbying. In contrast to the SEIU, the Michigan-based Operating Engineers Local 324 …
… 228 NLRB 1311, 1313 (1977). 37 1621 Route 22 W. Operating Co. LLC v. 1199 SEIU, No. 12-1031 (3rd Cir., March 14, 2018). 38 Shirlington Supermarket, Inc., … 5–6, https://perma.cc/EH6M-GFVR. 41 Ibid., 5. 42 Ibid. 43 Ibid., 6. 44 “SEIU Union Must Abandon ‘Card Check’ Union Organizing Drives in Pacific Northwest …
… employee of Kaiser Permanente Northwest, told the House Education and the Workforce Committee that in July 2011 her workplace was organized by the SEIU via card check in less than two weeks. She said that she was never presented with a card.[71] Ivey and her colleagues then collected signatures for …
… targets.”[49] In 2011, the SEIU “Contract Campaign Manual” … Labor and Pensions how the SEIU ravaged his company through … would not capitulate to the SEIU’s demands for a neutrality agreement, … According to Bego’s testimony, an SEIU organizer told him, “Mr. Bego, … suit filed by PJS against the SEIU for their aggressive corporate …
… a neutrality agreement with SEIU prior to the union’s organizing … statement, Mayhew detailed how the SEIU hosted a question and answer … exclusive representation by SEIU,” she said. “We were told by … exclusive representation by the SEIU.”[41] When the union received … and other tactics used by the SEIU against Kaiser Permanente employees …
… Union was skimming dues from the governmental aid the Haynes received for watching over their own children instead of institutionalizing them. The SEIU unionized over 45,000 home-help providers. A Mackinac Center Legal Foundation lawsuit on behalf of the Pat Haynes, and Steve Glossop, who was providing …
… The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) reported an 8 percent drop, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a 5.2 percent decline. These three unions, the largest public-sector unions in the nation, have witnessed a decline of some 279,000 workers. Conservatively …
… Amount of money annually siphoned even after the dues skim was ruled unconstitutional 84% — Percentage of home care givers who opted to leave the SEIU once given a choice
… voted. That was enough for the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, to be named as the collective bargaining agent for providers. The Mackinac … about the scheme. The Legislature ended the funding to the council, so the SEIU started to finance it, even as the council’s director collected unemployment …
… supporters. We discovered this problem in Michigan in 2009. Our creative team gave it a name — “dues skim” — that is now universally used. We killed the SEIU skim in Michigan in 2013 and contributed to litigation that led to a favorable U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Still, the practice continued in nearly a …
… the Mackinac Center is working with through Workers For Opportunity 8% — AFSCME national has experienced a 8% drop in total dues/fee payers 5.2% — SEIU national has experienced a 5.2% drop in members/fee payers 2.8% — National Education Association national has experienced a 2.8% drop in total dues/fee …
… from the Legislature. Then the SEIU held an election, in which … that was enough to install SEIU Healthcare Michigan as the … the dues began flowing to the SEIU. By March 2012, a total of … legislation to end it. But still, the SEIU persisted, going so far as … payments and membership in SEIU Healthcare Michigan plummeted. …
… agencies to “unionize” home caregivers and skim money from their paychecks. The SEIU maintained that these were “public” employees for the purpose of unionization, … see a massive drop in revenue — 84% of home caregivers dropped out of the SEIU affiliate once given a choice. “Ever since the Mackinac Center learned …
… placed under the control of outside trustees. And the end of a dues scheme by which tens of thousands of home caregivers were forcibly unionized by the SEIU Healthcare has meant an astounding 84 percent membership loss. In June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that all public sector …
… home care providers in Minnesota reported that the SEIU forged their signatures for the purpose of authorizing … Substantial precedent supports these requirements: SEIU and AFSCME membership enrollment and political … University of California, https://perma.cc/2XX8-C2LU; SEIU Healthcare Florida Local 1991, https://perma.cc/WEY3-397G; …
… enrollment resulting from Supreme Court rulings, labor unions began an aggressive campaign to enroll more dues-paying members. In some cases, unions like SEIU have reportedly resorted to forging signatures on membership forms.[5] The amount of union deductions skimmed by state governments from family child …
… This data comes from state and federal campaign spending reports. The SEIU’s affiliated super PAC, United We Can, made almost $1.3 million in independent … the Michigan Democratic Party and $68,000 to Gov. Whitmer’s campaign. The SEIU Michigan State Council made a $25,000 contribution to Gov. Whitmer’s campaign. …
… of Michigan's government unions have seen double-digit declines in fee-paying employees. For example, the Michigan State Employees Association and SEIU Local 517M saw 20 percent drops. Among other things, declining revenue affects the union’s ability to engage in political activism. Economist James …
… is a union for state police officers, who were exempted from the law.) These unions are the Michigan State Employees Association, UAW Local 6000, SEIU 517, AFSCME Council 25 and the Michigan Corrections Officers. Here is a look at the percentage of workers choosing to remain members of these unions …
… This data comes from state and federal campaign spending filings. The SEIU’s affiliated super PAC, United We Can, made almost $1.3 million in independent … board elections, state board of regent races and judicial elections. The SEIU Michigan State Council made a $25,000 contribution to Gov. Whitmer’s campaign. …
… Others, including the Michigan State Employees Association (MSEA) and the SEIU Local 517M, have seen declines of 20 percent or more. The number of workers paying fees to MSEA fell by 345, from 3,079 to 2,734. SEIU Local 517M decreased by 782 individuals, going from 3,532 to 2,750. Before …
… across the country to stop withholding union fees from the paychecks of people who had opted out of dues payments, if they had been doing so. The SEIU settled the lawsuit for $2,200 with an Oregon woman who had claimed the union had violated her constitutional rights by taking money from her even …
… Capitol. A couple of months later, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Knox v. SEIU, and the majority opinion in that case — decided in June 2012 — included … Michigan and make collective bargaining agreements trump state law. The SEIU, whose efforts to take money from home health aides in a dues-skim operation …
… Department of Community Health ended a contract with the SEIU that had been established during the term of former … from Medicaid checks to union coffers, usually the SEIU or the American Federation of State, County and … “According to a report by the U.S. Department of Labor, SEIU Healthcare Michigan’s membership fell from 55,265 …
… pay at least $15 an hour, the city government is still posting jobs paying less than that. The union behind the local minimum wage campaign is the SEIU, which a week earlier organized a rally that was attended by Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones. The resolution reads in part, “The Detroit …
… of Electrical Workers Local 876 was convicted of embezzling more than $300,000 from the union. She was sentenced to four years in federal prison. SEIU Healthcare Michigan was placed under an emergency trusteeship in 2017 by its parent organization after allegations of financial malpractice came to …
… primarily by six different unions: the MSEA, MCO, SEIU Local 517, Troopers Association, AFSCME Council … 2016 has plummeted from $844,766 to $319,766. SEIU Michigan is composed mostly of private sector health … the state are up 38,400 jobs (about 7 percent). SEIU Healthcare Michigan, which was composed almost …
… Sherry Loar is a home daycare provider in Petoskey, Michigan. With the Legal Foundation’s help, she managed to fight and win her case against the SEIU. Read her story. < 1 / 3 > “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It’s a wonderful feeling knowing you guys were there, and I was not fighting this battle …
… policy 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 …
… and Robert Haynes were caring for their disabled adult children when the SEIU unionized them against their will. Although the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation … state to pass legislation ending the dues skim, and voters rejecting an SEIU effort to reinstate it.
… employee unions. They include Doug Pratt, the MEA’s public affairs director, Bob Allison, executive director of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Michigan State Council, and Georgi-Ann Bargamian, a regional director of the United Auto Workers. The UAW represents thousands of Michigan state government …
… choice about supporting the SEIU, they responded by opting out … Jennifer Granholm worked with the SEIU to “organize” home caregivers. … “government employees” so that the SEIU could claim to be representing … annually from Medicaid recipients. SEIU Healthcare-Michigan then tried … choice. If they believed the SEIU was doing a good job “representing” …
… Without those resources, the union movement was unable to mount a winning campaign for the Democratic candidate for president in Wisconsin. When the SEIU bankrolled a ballot proposal to continue the “dues skim” from home caregivers in Michigan, the president of the union said at the Democratic National …
… Mackinac Center and National Federation of Independent Business have signed on to an amicus brief authored by the Cato Institute in the case Hill v. SEIU. The plaintiff in is being represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and contends that Constitution forbids the act of forcing …
… tied revenue sharing to best practices, banned monopolistic union hiring practices, 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 in 2012, cutting the personal property tax on tools and equipment, …
… tied revenue sharing to best practices, banned monopolistic union hiring practices, 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 in 2012, cutting the personal property tax on tools and equipment, …
… the ongoing saga surrounding SEIU Healthcare Michigan. This union is not new to scandals. SEIU Healthcare Michigan secretly … forced to belong to the union, SEIU Healthcare Michigan membership … been breaking away from the SEIU and repeatedly alleging corruption … almost unanimous vote, claiming SEIU Healthcare Michigan was spending …
… organizations — primarily the SEIU — still siphon an estimated … in private sector unionism, SEIU sought to regain ground by … government-administered aid program. SEIU entrapped workers any way it … children, decided to stand up to SEIU. The Legislature banned the practice but not before SEIU collected $34 million from …
… Public Schools support staff members went to Lansing to conduct a protest against their own union recently. They are taking steps to separate from the SEIU Local 517M and represent themselves. One Taylor support staff union member explained their complaints in a video.
… decade-old merger between the SEIU’s Taylor and Lansing affiliates. … merger. Because of the merger, SEIU Local 517M of Lansing is technically … nearly 400 signatures to the SEIU headquarters in Washington, … “We had planned on staying SEIU — just dissolve the merger,” … and represent ourselves.” SEIU Local 517M did not respond …
… initiative pushed by unions to keep groups like the Freedom Foundation from contacting home health care workers to inform them of their rights to leave the SEIU. The measure succeeded by a vote of 72 percent to 28 percent, which will mean that it will be harder for home health care workers to learn about their …
… “Their latest gambit would undo decades of precedent in the franchise industry and do irreparable harm to one of the bedrocks of small business.” The SEIU national office didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
… Executive Vice President Michael Reitz said in a statement to the media that the SEIU protest was a fitting nod to First Amendment protections, which the Friedrichs … Friedrichs case,” Reitz said. Reitz went on to remind the media that the SEIU took over $34 million from home health care workers, many of them simply …
… according to a POLITICO analysis of data from the Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service. Bob Allison, the executive director of the SEIU Michigan State Council, did not respond to an email offering him the opportunity to comment. Doug Pratt, the director of public affairs for the Michigan …
… Service Employees International Union (SEIU). From 2005 to 2013, the SEIU had a dues skimming scheme by which … by sending its press release on behalf of SEIU Michigan. “We’re protesting the Mackinac … home-based caregivers on behalf of an SEIU affiliate in 2013, its membership dropped …
… protest has been planned in front of its Midland office at 4 pm today by the SEIU of Michigan in connection to Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, … they want to support, which is the central issue in the Friedrichs case. SEIU was involved in skimming tens of millions of dollars from individuals with …
… http://perma.cc/Y7EJ-B2ZV. 16 Paul Pringle, “SEIU Official Steps aside in Inquiry,” … “Congress Scrutinizes L.A. Local of SEIU,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 29, … http://perma.cc/48T7-BAHC. 18 Paul Pringle, “SEIU Alleges Misuse of Funds,” Los … Richard Winton, “Former Leader of SEIU Local Is Indicted,” Los Angeles … and Hailey Branson-Potts, “Ex-SEIU Local Exec Convicted of Stealing …
… dollar debts in order to free up cash to spend. The SEIU, one of the nation’s largest unions, appears to … In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported: An SEIU spokeswoman says the union works on a four-year … recent presidential election year, reveals that SEIU was the top spender among unions on political activities …
… in Hawaii.[18] Freeman was also alleged to have failed to provide documentation to support the legitimacy of a second trip to Hawaii.[19] After the SEIU conducted its own investigation, it banned Freeman for life and sought repayment from him of more than $1 million to cover his misappropriations.[20] …
… union of Steffke’s local, the AFT, is one of the top 10 labor organizations in political spending nationally, with a tally of $21,457,153 in 2012. (The SEIU tops the list, spending nearly $113,820,009 that year on political activity and lobbying.) Steffke would also like to know how much local member dues …
… enabled the exploitation ended. SEIU Healthcare Michigan reported … back to the mid-2000s when SEIU moved to grab a share of the … of Gov. Jennifer Granholm, SEIU was allowed to carry out the … into the union's coffers. SEIU Healthcare Michigan's required … after dues and fees, most of SEIU Healthcare Michigan's remaining …
Last year when SEIU Healthcare Michigan reported losing more … U.S. Department of Labor. “For SEIU Healthcare Michigan, their … late they are in violation.” SEIU Healthcare Michigan’s reported … more than $34 million to the SEIU. In 2014 the union waited … entirely without the dues skim. SEIU Healthcare Michigan now apparently …
… conscience on the job." ~~~~~ See also: VIDEOS: Union Right-to-Work Protest Goes Violent Most of the Arrested Anti Right-to-Work Protesters Have SEIU 'Dues Skim' Connections 'We'll Be at Your Daughter's Soccer Game'
… of the shine came off the program and it was eventually scaled back substantially. I think it’s also fair to say that we wouldn’t have ended the SEIU’s unconscionable skimming of so-called dues dollars from Medicaid recipients without CapCon reporter Jack Spencer’s work. That union quietly stole $6 …
… be forced to pay property tax on their 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 bailed. About 44,000 …
… what later became known as the SEIU dues skim. It was a scheme … forced unionization and the SEIU maneuvering to keep it going. … of the millions of dollars SEIU was taking from home-based … to outlaw the dues skim. The SEIU went to court to keep it alive … of 2013 – but only after the SEIU had extracted more than $34 …
… Obamacare Making Sense of the Complicated Ballot Language for Proposal 1 SEIU Membership Drops 80 Percent After Dues Skim Ends Legislators Block Low-Cost … Haven’t Paid Dues; Some Teachers Say Union Intentionally Misled Members SEIU Allowed to Keep Millions in ‘Dues’ Money it Siphoned Away from Medicaid …
… his principles, Adam told us. And how about Robert and Patricia Haynes, the Clinton Township couple who 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 Court …
… semester at the University of California – Berkeley. Under her leadership, Michigan led the nation in job loss with a decline of 576,900 positions. The SEIU is urging home caregivers in Michigan to join some fast food protesters in going on strike. The vast majority of these workers look after family or …
… “Corporate Campaigns” (Competitive Enterprise Institute, April 30, 2012), http://goo.gl/wjUhgR (accessed July 10, 2014). 25 F. Vincent Vernuccio, “SEIU Intimidation Manual Exposed!” (Competitive Enterprise Institute, Sept. 17, 2011), http://goo.gl/ GzSQqw (accessed July 10, 2014). 26 Ibid. 27 Steven …
… worker center engages in regulatory pressure or reputational attacks, which in some cases venture into personal criticisms of company officers. A 2011 SEIU “Contract Campaign Manual” instructed workers how to successfully put pressure on a business, saying “outside pressure can involve jeopardizing relationships …
… general counsel for the Service Employees International Union) and Catherine Fisk of the University of California-Irvine School of Law (and member of the SEIU Ethics Review Board) recently wrote in the Los Angeles Times: Requiring unions to offer free representation to workers who do not want a union in …
… the 2012 election. This was the action that finally led to the end of the SEIU healthcare dues skim. Governors also make appointments to the Michigan … to which a governor makes appointments is extensive. ~~~~~ See also: SEIU Dues Skim Finally Grounds to a Halt
… Court of Appeals granted the SEIU’s motion to dismiss the case, … than they requested. “The SEIU overpaid our clients to prevent … “It was pretty obvious the SEIU did not want the court to take … longer interested parties.” The SEIU sent checks to the MCLF on … was unconstitutional. “The SEIU saw the writing on the wall …
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 …
The SEIU represents hundreds of thousands of health care workers and is now encouraging them to march … Michigan, 75 percent of those home-care aid workers the SEIU is urging to strike are taking care of a relative … country were formerly forcibly unionized by the SEIU. That ended this summer when the U.S. Supreme Court …
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… decades-long membership slump. SEIU began organizing caregivers … arrangement was quite simple: SEIU would convince a state agency … of the Medicaid payments to SEIU in the form of union dues, … caregivers greatly enriched SEIU. We exposed a similar scheme … the program, but not before SEIU skimmed $34 million away from …
… Jennifer Granholm. The first to arrive was the SEIU, which sought the creation of a faux employer so … individuals. The home help unionization got the SEIU around $6 million a year, while the day care providers … seek a repayment of the dues money taken by the SEIU from home-based caregivers, an amount that exceeds …
… partners at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation to make our voices louder. We know in Michigan that when folks weren’t forced to pay the SEIU, 80 percent dropped off the union’s membership rolls. (Patrick Wright sums up our involvement in our feature article.) Summer brings in a new class …
… its scheme in place than it took the SEIU with the home-based caregivers. The … Michigan Capitol Confidential of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation Seeks Return Of 'Dues Skim' Money SEIU Election Battle Hinges On Home-Based … Unionization Scheme Infighting At The SEIU How the Forced Unionization of Day …