… grant money. Transparency laws are important. In just the few years we have used FOIA requests to break dozens of major news stories. Exposing the SEIU “dues skim,” where the union teamed up with the administration of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm to take more than $32 million from home-based caregivers …
… amendments. Proposal 4, equally damaging in its own right, would have permitted the continued stealth unionization of home-based caregivers by the SEIU. The majority of these workers are friends or family members of their patients, and certainly not government employees. Prop 4’s defeat keeps about …
… attempt to unionize graduate student research assistants at the University of Michigan and home-based caregivers who were forced into a union by the SEIU. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy filed lawsuits relating to those two instances. Nearly a year ago, when King announced the proposal, he described …
… union of Steffke’s local, the AFT, is one of the top 10 labor organizations in political spending nationally, with a tally of $21,457,153 in 2012. (The SEIU tops the list, spending nearly $113,820,009 that year on political activity and lobbying.) Steffke would also like to know how much local member dues …
… initiative pushed by unions to keep groups like the Freedom Foundation from contacting home health care workers to inform them of their rights to leave the SEIU. The measure succeeded by a vote of 72 percent to 28 percent, which will mean that it will be harder for home health care workers to learn about their …
… policy research, we’ve also successfully litigated to protect Michigan families against government overreach. The most notable of these examples is the SEIU’s “dues skim,” which allowed this government union to literally steal money from some of our most needy residents. We exposed this racket and eventually …
… across the country to stop withholding union fees from the paychecks of people who had opted out of dues payments, if they had been doing so. The SEIU settled the lawsuit for $2,200 with an Oregon woman who had claimed the union had violated her constitutional rights by taking money from her even …
… placed under the control of outside trustees. And the end of a dues scheme by which tens of thousands of home caregivers were forcibly unionized by the SEIU Healthcare has meant an astounding 84 percent membership loss. In June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that all public sector …
… The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) reported an 8 percent drop, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a 5.2 percent decline. These three unions, the largest public-sector unions in the nation, have witnessed a decline of some 279,000 workers. Conservatively …
… Union was skimming dues from the governmental aid the Haynes received for watching over their own children instead of institutionalizing them. The SEIU unionized over 45,000 home-help providers. A Mackinac Center Legal Foundation lawsuit on behalf of the Pat Haynes, and Steve Glossop, who was providing …
