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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 …

Ballot Petition Signatures Submitted in Home Health Aide Scheme

Attempt to grant dues skim constitutional protection is a ‘disgrace’

… proposal that would enshrine the SEIU dues skim in the state constitution … Foundation. “Long before the SEIU and the Granholm Administration … February. A lawyer for the SEIU told the judge the union would … the upcoming elections. “The SEIU has openly admitted to the … are being forced to fund the SEIU’s political machine. Since these …

Supreme Court Rules Unions Can't Take Extra Fees Without Consent

SEIU, other unions must provide opt-in clause to spend members' money on political activities

… Perhaps most importantly, the decision in the SEIU v. Knox case portends an end to the system that … of the normal dues or agency fee charged by the SEIU. The union did not provide a second Hudson notice … Michigan Capitol Confidential Coverage of the SEIU Michigan Capitol Confidential Labor Coverage

SEIU Dues Skim Continues

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 … Beckmann Show” on WJR AM760. Wright also told The Detroit News that the SEIU is taking about $500,000 a month away from the home health aides. You can …

Despite Law, SEIU Gets To Continue Taking Medicaid Check Money

Federal judge orders injunction against law; SEIU 'home health care dues skim' continues

… included the six month extension SEIU and MQC3 signed in April. That … state bureaucrats allowed the SEIU to pencil in MQC3 as a dummy … being unionized. To date, the SEIU has taken more than $30 million … contingent representing the SEIU who traveled to Detroit from … damage." Among the damages the SEIU would suffer, Kronland said, …

SEIU Extends Home Health Care Contract On Day Governor Signs Bill Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal

Questions surround signing that extends contract through February 2013

… Community Care Council and the SEIU keeps what is now known as … the "skim" last month but the SEIU sued in federal court to keep … Michigan, an affiliate of the SEIU, signed the contract extension … dummy employer used by the SEIU to net tens of thousands of … in their homes.  So far the SEIU has received more than $30 …

President Joseph G. Lehman Debates 'Protect Our Jobs' Ballot Proposal at the Mackinac Policy Conference

UAW President a Debate No-Show

… for government. One union came into Sherry Loar’s 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 for their disabled children at home with Medicaid assistance. …

Lehman Debates Union Power Grab

… for government. One union came into Sherry Loar’s 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 for their disabled children at home with Medicaid assistance. …

SEIU Sues State, Governor to Keep Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' Money Flowing

… the U.S. Constitution. The SEIU has taken more than $30.4 million … and handing it over to the SEIU. Earlier, the legislature passed … a government employee. The SEIU was taking dues under a complicated … caring for loved ones. The SEIU Healthcare Michigan Union representatives … General Orders State To Stop SEIU 'Dues Skim' How the Forced …

SEIU Dues Scheme Must End

… subsidies that go to home health aides, according to the Detroit Free Press, Midland Daily News, MIRS Capitol 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 Schuette issued an opinion Friday saying …

Attorney General Orders State To Stop SEIU 'Dues Skim'

… were to end the withholding of SEIU dues from private individuals … 2012 election cycle.   The SEIU hasn’t given any money to Republicans. … executive vice president of the SEIU who made $222,876 in 2010, and SEIU president Mary Kay Henry, whose … of the Michigan chapter of SEIU Local 517. Patrick Wright, …

Attorney General Orders Home Health Dues Skim to End

Illegal scheme continued despite law explicitly stating providers are not government employees

… have been paying dues in the first place.” The SEIU was able to skim the so-called “dues” under a scheme … funds but did receive operating expenses from the SEIU. CapCon also reported that the MQC3 is being operated … unemployment insurance. Wright cautioned that the SEIU is trying to pass a constitutional amendment to …

No Relief In Sight For Home Health Care Workers

Without action from governor's office, SEIU 'Dues Skim' likely to continue until at least fall

… Union Healthcare Michigan (SEIU). The collective bargaining … were forced into joining the SEIU. As a result, dues from the … to decline membership in the SEIU and must then pay a uniformly … West Coast Scandal Roots of SEIU Forced Unionization 'Money … Picture, But Dues Keep Flowing To SEIU SEIU Sent Key GOP Senator …

SEIU's Vicious Circle

… this morning. Spencer discussed his latest story, which outlines how the SEIU is paying for a shell corporation to remain open after it was defunded by … are not state employees and therefore cannot be forced into a union, the SEIU continues the money grab, which has amounted to some $30 million over the …

Pennies on the Dollar

… health care worker checks and handing it over to the SEIU as union dues, thus ending a union scheme that … member in their own home. Since late 2006, the SEIU has skimmed more than $30 million from taxpayers … basement and receives thousands of dollars from the SEIU to maintain its quasi functions. (Check out Jack …

Union Money Helps 'Dues Skim' Stay Alive

Home health care workers still losing money to SEIU despite law to end the scam; dummy employer executive director working only 3 hours a month

… of at least $12,000 from the SEIU to keep the scheme alive. … comes, seven years after the SEIU pulled off a scheme to divert … Michigan, $1,000; MDRC $3,000; and SEIU $12,000. Steinke went on to … the millions of dollars the SEIU has taken in, the breakdown … able to get the dues check to SEIU. The check is easy; the bigger …

How CapCon Uses Transparency Laws to Hold Government Accountable

… Confidential, this 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 …

'Skim Tracker' Hits $30 Million

… Under a scheme perpetrated while Jennifer Granholm was governor, tens of thousands of so-called “home health care workers” were railroaded into the SEIU. As a result, dues from the taxpayer-provided checks of those to care for homebound patients has been flowing to the union. Continuation of this practice …

April 27, 2012, MichiganVotes.org Weekly Roll Call

… billion this year. The budget includes provisions that could result in placing some prisoners in a private prison, which is strongly opposed by the SEIU-affiliated prison guard union. Republicans Casperson, Caswell, Emmons, Kahn, Nofs and Walker joined all Democrats in opposing this budget.  Who Voted …