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What's Hiding Under the MASC?

It's Not Easy Getting Answers out of the MEDC

… paying as much as $2 million to the SEIU subsidiary even if they have no tax … decision to extend MEGA credits to SEIU/MASC and other business ventures referred … was what the MEDC was offering to SEIU/MASC: MEGA, the state's response to … will be paying for the creation of an SEIU office that could also be used for …

Union Front Organizations the New Face of Big Labor

Key focus of AFL-CIO convention this week, according to labor policy expert

… push called “Fight for 15” that is demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour for fast food workers is coordinated by a worker center affiliated with the SEIU. Similarly, the protests at Wal-Mart are conducted by a worker center affiliated with the UFCW. “These groups fall outside of the normal laws that …

MEGA Madness and Big Labor Contradictions

Dubious Michigan Tax Break to Union Raises Eyebrows

… offered in part to address the union's complaint that it is at a disadvantage due to Michigan's "high labor costs" compared to two other states the SEIU was supposedly considering (one of them with a right-to-work law reviled by the union). This according to a document obtained by Detroit News business …

Michigan’s largest unions have seen plummeting membership over the past decade

Jobs and incomes are up, workplace injuries are down

… 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 …

Our Accomplishments

… Michigan Capitol Confidential, the Center’s online news source, closely monitored the plight of home-based care givers who were shanghaied into the SEIU. It wrote more than 80 stories and commentaries about them and kept a real-time count, through an online “skim tracker,” of some $35 million diverted …

Local Government Stories

… District Refuses to Sell Unused Building to Public Charter School — Despite Receiving $250K Asking Price Muskegon Health Care Workers Get Out of SEIU Township Board Votes Unanimously to Exempt Employees From State Law, Continue Paying Nothing For Health Insurance Highland Park School District: …

Service Employees International Union

… a split in organized labor. SEIU and six other unions, including … Change to Win Federation.[46] SEIU Joint Council 35, its statewide … 34,000 members in 2006, making SEIU one of the larger unions in the state.[47] SEIU has two locals in Michigan … in Lansing. Our estimate of SEIU local spending is based on …

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

… since publication. Because the SEIU did not respond to requests … a $12,000 payment from the SEIU in February 2012. The date … responsible union officers. "If the SEIU failed to report expenditures … workers were forced into the SEIU after a vote most were unaware … ended the scheme. However, the SEIU gave it at least $12,000 to …

Michigan Senate bills would revive dues skim for home health workers

Government employees can opt out of unions, but Senate Bill 790 would make it much harder

… 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. …

By the Numbers: The Dues Skim

… 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

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

… Detroit building that houses the SEIU — the same union collecting … to pass the bill while the SEIU takes money from special needs … R-Saginaw, received $5,000 from the SEIU on the day the bill to end … put in to the coffers of the SEIU to be used as they wish. “They’re … West Coast Scandal Roots of SEIU Forced Unionization 'Money …

Stealth Unionization: The Walking Dead

… entire scheme was created by the SEIU in 2005 with the assistance … Granholm’s administration. The SEIU, a self-described “militant” … MQCCC. The scheme allowed the SEIU to skim more than $32 million … members or close friends. The SEIU formally admitted in court … placed on the ballot by an SEIU-funded front organization, …

How Do You Solve A Problem Like A Dues Skim?

… before that law passed, the SEIU extended its so-called collective … Granholm Administration and the SEIU in order to create an “employer” … organize against. The MQCCC-SEIU agreement was extended until … was not the only way that the SEIU challenged 2012 PA 76. It also … drawn almost entirely from the SEIU-friendly MQCCC board. Just …

Home Health Care Dues Still Being Skimmed

Could stop next month

… for about six years and the SEIU has taken in more than $29 … dollars will go toward the SEIU effort to lock the “skim” permanently … West Coast Scandal Roots of SEIU Forced Unionization 'Money … Picture, But Dues Keep Flowing To SEIU SEIU Sent Key GOP Senator $5K on …

Benenson Strategy Group

A DC public relations firm with a strong partisan tilt. Eleventh in a series.

… for the Senate to act, the SEIU continues to siphon money that … might be going, drawn from the SEIU's 2010 LM-2 report: The Benenson … recipient of $271,800 from SEIU in 2010. Benenson was described … presidential campaign in 2008. SEIU's choice of Benenson as its … Atlas Project Change.org SEIU Healthcare Michigan Ballot …

Senate Shows Support For Ending Home Health Care 'Dues Skim'

… Employees International Union (SEIU) targeted dollars that taxpayers … health care workers” into the SEIU. The vast majority of the 43,729 … these people were unionized, SEIU began collecting dues from … workers has swollen to 60,190. SEIU coffers have been enriched … to flow into those coffers. SEIU could spend this money on anything …

The Cover Story For the 'Dues Skim'

… Employees International Union (SEIU). That original “cover story” … percentage is much smaller. SEIU targeted the taxpayer dollars … workers” had been unionized, SEIU began collecting dues from … care dues skim.” So far, the SEIU has received more than $29 … other home caregivers to fund SEIU union officials' socialist …