… 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’ …
… $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 …
… 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 …
… in the district of another Republican who had sponsored a bill to divert $6.6 million in state and federal Medicaid dollars into the coffers of the SEIU by allowing the "stealth unionization" of thousands of home health workers. According to Day, the bill may have been introduced as a payoff to the …
… $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 …
… Unionization Minority Rules: Most Members of Child Care Union Didn't Vote Themselves In Axed State Agency Mysteriously Operational GOP Senators, SEIU Taxpayer Giveaways, Campaign Cash and More, OH MY!
… described Thompson as a consultant. However, as recently as 2010, Thompson was the political director for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). According to CAGO's filing, the recall committee still had $11,596 on hand at the end of the period covered in its statement. ~~~~~ See also: …
… board member Vera Perry said, according to The Journal. Board trustee David Davenport pointed out that district employees who are represented by the SEIU are now paying 50 percent toward their insurance premium, up from 10 percent, The Journal reported. “I say they can take a cut like I took one,” warehouse …
… Strategies, which received $10,308.36, not counting the $2,291 that was paid to political consultant Joe DiSano of Main Street Strategies. Former SEIU political director Vaughn Thompson of Haslett (near East Lansing) was paid $6,479.46 from recall campaign coffers and Buda got $5,987.50. Buda is a …
… providers ended, but due to Senate Republican inaction, $7 million annually is still being funneled from mom-and-pop home health care providers to the SEIU (parent of ACORN). 21. Post-retirement state employee health benefits reformed. Critically important and long overdue reforms of these optional benefits …
