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Home Health Care Bill Signed Into Law

… Commission on the Aging. The SEIU then applied to the Michigan … $5,000 contribution from the SEIU the day after Opsommer’s bill … its home page to tally the SEIU’s take from home health care … unemployment insurance and since the SEIU was helping keep its doors … release. Not surprisingly, the SEIU filed a federal lawsuit challenging …

News Release: State Government Paid $17.6 Million to Unions in 2008, According to Documents Secured by FOIA Request

“Agency fee” clause means state taxpayers contribute to unions, Mackinac Center analyst says

… $5,838,655.20 Michigan Corrections Organization (SEIU Local 526M) $4,959,645.28 SEIU Local 517M $2,433,129.78 Michigan State Employees … a modest portion of their activities, but both SEIU and AFSCME records show political spending making …

A New Model of Public-Sector Union Organization

… 1980s in California under the direction of the SEIU. Many organizers credit Craig Becker, then a law … successful unionization of this kind involved the SEIU organizing in-home caregivers in Los Angeles County … majority of participating caregivers rejected both the SEIU and AFSCME affiliate, and these caregivers were …

Medicaid Dues Skim May Come To An End, After All

Friends, relatives of disabled individuals among those swept into public sector unions

… 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 …

Line 5 is a Textbook Example of Environmental Versus Labor Concerns

The debate has reinforced the blue-green divide

… “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 …

Taylor announces concessions

… $800, 000," Oct. 12, 2010 Taylor School District, "Master Agreement between The Board of Education of Taylor School District and Local 26M Division of SEIU Local 517, Dec. 8, 2008 - June 30, 2010." FURTHER READING: Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Michigan School Databases, "Michigan School District …

Conclusion

… more than $30 million in union dues from Medicaid money meant for those caregivers. The subsequent public outcry and legislative backlash against the SEIU and the MQC3 for this arrangement led to the defunding of the MQC3. Advocates serious about these programs should consider severing them from unionization, …

The Intellectual Firepower Against Right-to-Work

Who's who on right-to-work

… on that organization’s website (go to page 15). Also, unions are heavily represented on EPI’s board of directors, including the presidents of the SEIU, AFSCME, the machinists union, the communications workers union; the food and commercial workers union; UAW President Bob King; AFL-CIO President Richard …

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Summer 2013 Edition

… Requests to Hide Information 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 Films or Potholes? Film Incentives: …

Mackinac Wins 2019 State Policy Network Award

… 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 …

Prop 4 Op-Ed in Detroit Free Press Ungrounded

… one important thing missing from Hoyle's column — the words "union" and "SEIU." Since every reported dime to gather signatures and run this campaign … a constitutional amendment isn't bad a bad return on investment — if the SEIU wins.

No Provisions for Higher Pay or Improved Work Conditions

… collective bargaining regulation of MERC. [‡] If Proposal 4 were approved, the SEIU would remain the home help providers’ certified union if a collective bargaining agreement between the MQC3 and the SEIU were in force at the time Proposal 4 was adopted. (See Proposal 4 of 2012, …

Top 25 of 2014

Our most popular offerings of the year

… 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 …

Even After Right-to-Work, Unions Still Big Political Spenders in Michigan

… 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. …

Mackinac Center Applauds Federal Change Ending Dues Skimming

Unions can no longer skim an estimated $200 million in dues from home health care workers

… 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 …

Ending the 'Dues Skim' in Michigan

How the government was stopped from taking money from paychecks

… 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 …

Michigan Forces Business Owners Into Public-Sector Union

… Union, better known as the SEIU. Fourteen states have now enabled … Corp. granted a for-profit SEIU subsidiary, the SEIU Member Action Service Center, … because it categorized the SEIU subsidiary as a business and … just before the 5,000 member SEIU local 517M granted the state …

MERC’s Power to Approve the Unionization

… agreement between the MQC3 and the SEIU specifically states: The parties … bargaining contract with the SEIU are aspirational. They essentially … stood when the MQC3 and the SEIU approached MERC to certify … As noted above, the MQC3 and SEIU indicated in their petition … that presented by the MQC3 and SEIU.

Corporate Campaigns

… 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 …

Alabama Betrayal: Congressman Provides Tea Party Lessons

… recipient of a $2,000 campaign contribution from the SEIU on June 22, six weeks before SB 731 was introduced. In … quid-pro-quo between Senate Republicans and the SEIU for union support of former state Rep. Mike Nofs … the party's top priorities. Day observes that the SEIU endorsed Nofs on August 22, two weeks after SB …