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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 …