… support in various forms for both Republican and Democrat politicians. For example, the Michigan Corrections Organization, a union subsidiary of the SEIU, endorsed Republican Mike Cox in his 2006 campaign for Attorney General, and its president has also bragged that when Gov. Jennifer Granholm closed …
… Michigan Corrections Organization, SEIU Local 526M, was the only union to report … employees in its bargaining unit. Another SEIU local, 517M, was a big winner, adding … +$214,527.72 MI Corrections Org./SEIU 526M $4,959,645.28 $4,840,725.89 -$118,919.39 SEIU 517M $2,433,129.78 $2,721,664.04 +$288,534.26 …
… privileged class. Examples of politicians appearing to serve the system rather than the people published previously on this page include "GOP Senators, SEIU Taxpayer Giveaways, Campaign Cash and More, OH MY!" and "Union Bennie 'Obligation' Legislation Burdens Taxpayers for Nonobligations." The politicians …
… government union movement, however, is more ideological, its goals are primarily political, and it dismisses the value of economic growth. As one-time SEIU organizer and academic Paul Johnston puts it, government employee unions have become “the quintessential ‘state-making’ social movement, one that 'enacts' …
… 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 …
… well-connected public-sector union. The SEIU already benefits from its legal … decision to award the tax credit, SEIU Local 517M agreed to revise … made the pay cut easier for SEIU officers to swallow. Second, … know little about what the SEIU will do with the office space … temptation will be strong for SEIU to use these same state-supported …
… 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 …
… taxpayer money annually to the SEIU government employee union, … campaign contribution from the SEIU on June 22, six weeks before … Senate Republicans and the SEIU for union support of former … priorities. Day observes that the SEIU endorsed Nofs on August 22nd, … of taxpayer dollars to the SEIU to receive official blessing …
… taxpayer money annually to the SEIU government employee union, … campaign contribution from the SEIU on June 22, six weeks before … Senate Republicans and the SEIU for union support of former … priorities. Day observes that the SEIU endorsed Nofs on August 22nd, … of taxpayer dollars to the SEIU to receive official blessing …
… more and more troubling, as SEIU Local 517M, which represents … state of Michigan. (Another SEIU local, #526M, represents about … reported on this blog, another SEIU subsidiary, the Member Action … intend to follow suit. With SEIU officials agreeing to make … for special tax breaks. The SEIU already receives more than …
… ongoing examination of the SEIU-Member Action Service Center … tax credit to MASC, says that SEIU was considering locations in … Florida, it does not appear that SEIU or MASC applied for economic … Missouri. The timing of the SEIU’s application for tax credits … be highly irregular, but if SEIU waited until October 22 to …
… 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 …
… 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 …
… the public deserves answers: SEIU is the collective bargaining … the state as employer and the SEIU as a union? Was there a quid-pro-quo involved? In 2008 the SEIU received close to $6.4 million … again this year. Hasn't the SEIU received enough from taxpayers … indicates that only 47.2 percent of SEIU dues are spent on representation. …
… five years to the corporate subsidiary of the Service Employees International Union for an operation that will provide administrative services for the SEIU and other local unions. MEGA is considered the "flagship" of the state's growing empire of "economic development" programs and authorities. The MEGA …
… were responding to an open records request by the SEIU, a union that represents health care and government … suggests a fair amount of skepticism towards the SEIU, which has given Sebelius and her PAC over $130,000. … clue?) Americans for Tax Reform, no friend of the SEIU, says follow the money. See also Bob Weeks, blogger …
… of ever-greater government involvement in health care, and understandably so: It gives them more opportunities to snag members and their dues. The SEIU in Kansas has asked the state for the names and addresses of health care professionals who provide care under the state’s HCBS program. A state representative …
… organizations that represent private-sector employees. The effect of the federal law is that the Michigan and federal bodies of the NEA/MEA, AFSCME and SEIU, all of which represent some private-sector employees, are required to file LM-2 forms, but the vast majority of their locals are not, because those …
… $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 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 …
… very differently. The Carpenters union generally avoided attempting to pass off payments to political organizations as representation expenses, while SEIU had a number of entries attributed to representation that were likely political in nature. The National Education Association also had a sizeable number …
… $30,000 in athletic uniforms as representation expenses. (For this and similar reasons, the LM-2 form from this local was not used in our estimates.) SEIU National Headuarters claimed payments to ACORN International, sponsorship of Air America and a donation to the Michigan Republican Party as representation …
… (UNITE HERE’s actual target was the laundry service, although Sutter Health itself was the target of another union organizing campaign waged by the SEIU.) Sutter Health would eventually win a $17 million dollar judgment against UNITE HERE for defamation. Another tactic is to take advantage of the stock …
… tax enjoys support with less than 30 percent of the public. Support for a possible income tax hike is even lower. March 19 - 22 Unions including the SEIU, the AFL-CIO and the MEA “turn up the volume” on their urging the legislature to increase taxes rather than reduce government spending, issuing press …
… Union of America v. Keating, 83 P.3d 835, 840 (Oklahoma 2003). 38 Ibid., 845-46 (Opala, J., concurring). 39 Cone v. Nevada Service Employees Union/SEIU Local 1107, 998 P.2d 1178 (Nevada 2000). 40 Ibid., 1180. 41 Ibid., 1182-83 (internal citations and footnote omitted). 42 Branch v. Myrtle Beach, …
… whether all union fees are prohibited and whether public employees are covered by these amendments and laws. In Cone v. Nevada Service Employees Union/SEIU Local 1107, the Nevada Supreme Court held that despite Nevada’s right-to-work law, unions could charge nonunion workers a fee for handling the nonmembers’ …
… 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 …
… 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: …
