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SEIU Sent Key GOP Senator $5K on Day Bill to End 'Forced Unionization' Arrived in Senate

Home health care unionization continues to this day

… Dues Skim, under which the SEIU has received more than $28 … worker checks and given to the SEIU as union dues. According to … keeps the dues flowing to the SEIU. This dues flow amounts to … million annually, which the SEIU could use for political purposes … Senate Republicans and the SEIU “Since 2006 SEIU has been …

Home Health Care 'Dues Skim' More Than Matches SEIU '08 Obama Contributions

… contributions it gave him in 2008. If SEIU were to send him only the dollars … enough. About five years ago SEIU pulled off a covert “forced … healthcare dues skim.” The SEIU has now received more than … million it gave Obama made the SEIU one of his biggest contributors. Three months ago, the SEIU endorsed Obama's re-election …

Unionization Case Before The Supreme Court Could Have Lasting National Impact

Harris v. Quinn could make all public employees eligible for right-to-work; case is flying under the radar

… Michigan's dues skim, which resulted in the SEIU taking more than $34 million from the … Michigan Capitol Confidential of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation Seeks Return Of 'Dues Skim' Money SEIU Election Battle Hinges On Home-Based … Unionization Scheme Infighting At The SEIU How the Forced Unionization of Day …

Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Asks Appeals Court to Correct Michigan Employment Relations Commission Error

‘Clients are caught in a Catch-22’

… some 40,000 home-based caregivers. Most of those who were caught up in the SEIU’s scheme were family members and friends caring for the state’s most vulnerable … Michigan Constitution. The dues skim funneled more than $34 million to the SEIU before it came to an end last spring. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy …

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 …

Attorney General Appeals Ruling That Allows SEIU to Keep Taking Dues From Medicaid Checks

… disabled residents to pay to the SEIU, which had challenged in court … governor to put a stop to it. The SEIU has taken more than $30 million … to collect the money. The SEIU is promoting a ballot proposal … November. ~~~~~ See also: SEIU Extends Home Health Care Contract … Making 'Dues Skim' Illegal SEIU Sues State, Governor to Keep …

Law Enforcement Does Not Universally Support Proposal 4

State sheriff's association says it's wrong for special interests to meddle with State Constitution

… 44,000 home-based caregivers were unionized and started losing money to the SEIU. The union has taken more than $32 million from the Medicaid checks of the … administration." Earlier this year, Schuette went to court to try and stop the SEIU from taking the money. Proposal 4 campaign supporters have managed to get …

Dues and Don'ts

Should all businesses be forced to pay dues to the Chamber of Commerce?

… demonstrates just how far they’ll go to defend these forcibly extracted dues. For example, after Michigan Capitol Confidential broke news last week that the SEIU was removing hundreds of dollars in “dues” annually from the subsidy of a struggling couple who look after their own disabled children, Fox Business …

Union Money Behind Health Care Ballot Proposal Not Well Hidden

Use of a dummy corporation will keep official disclosure 'secret' until next year

… corporation, Home Care First Inc. SEIU Healthcare Michigan, an SEIU affiliate, is the most likely … although other affiliates of SEIU likely are contributing as … campaign finance rules. The SEIU has a vested interest in this … workers since 2005. More than half of SEIU Healthcare Michigan's finances …

Courage, Conviction Help Take Down Forced Unionization Schemes

… really got people fired up," she said of the scrolling money calculator posted on the Michigan Capitol Confidential website that tallied the money the SEIU took from home-based caregivers during the seven years the scheme was active here.  She's now hoping to get "skim trackers" scrolling in Minnesota, …

Stealth Unionization Scheme Bleeds Medicaid

… Hayneses are not alone. Under this arrangement, the SEIU has skimmed nearly $29 million from 56,000 Michigan … family members caring for loved ones. In 2005, the SEIU held a virtually unpublicized election that roped … supermajority, have not considered the bill, allowing the SEIU to collect $4 million more over the intervening …

Exemptions, Navigators and New Members

Big Labor's payback from Obamacare

… was quoted in the bestselling book, "Shadow Bosses," that "Obamacare is an SEIU and AFSCME membership 'net,' … designed to eventually capture 21 million … more as salesmen to lobby the public to support the new health care law. SEIU President Mary Kay Henry told the Reuters Summit in October: "We're running …

Dues Skimming Meets Its Demise

Federal rule ends a union's ability to involuntarily take money from home health care givers

… from the Legislature. Then the SEIU held an election, in which … that was enough to install SEIU Healthcare Michigan as the … the dues began flowing to the SEIU. By March 2012, a total of … legislation to end it. But still, the SEIU persisted, going so far as … payments and membership in SEIU Healthcare Michigan plummeted. …

SEIU Allowed to Keep Millions in ‘Dues’ Money it Siphoned Away from Medicaid in Stealth Unionization, Court of Appeals Rules

‘Union has refused every opportunity to defend Granholm administration and itself in concocting this scheme’

… Court of Appeals granted the SEIU’s motion to dismiss the case, … than they requested. “The SEIU overpaid our clients to prevent … “It was pretty obvious the SEIU did not want the court to take … longer interested parties.” The SEIU sent checks to the MCLF on … was unconstitutional.  “The SEIU saw the writing on the wall …

Politically Powerful Special Interest Gets Special State Tax Break

… 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 …

Michigan Families Set Stage For Helping End Forced Unionization Schemes

Supreme Court ruled daycare, home-based caregivers not public employees and can't be unionized

… unionization attempts. The SEIU went after the home-based caregivers … which later became known as the SEIU "dues skim" involved numerous twists, turns and detours.  The SEIU's scheme in Michigan was orchestrated … caregiver forced unionization were SEIU officials from California with … Stern, who headed the national SEIU until 2010, and in the early …

While Helping Out Injured Ex-Wife, Man Forced Into Union

Proposal 4 would ensure that people like Richard Nottage remain unionized public employees

… million has been taken by the SEIU from tens of thousands of people … injured in Michigan.  And, if the SEIU gets its way, the scheme will … watching their money taken by the SEIU nonetheless. Nottage said he recently received a letter from SEIU, urging him to vote for an … – It’s All About The Money SEIU Ballot Proposal Raises Questions …

Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door For Daycare Workers To Get Money Back

Unions took $4 million from Michigan daycare workers; class action lawsuit now possible

… its scheme in place than it took the SEIU with the home-based caregivers. The … Michigan Capitol Confidential of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation Seeks Return Of 'Dues Skim' Money SEIU Election Battle Hinges On Home-Based … Unionization Scheme Infighting At The SEIU How the Forced Unionization of Day …

How Right-to-Work Affected Michigan’s State Employee Unions

See the status of five of the state's top unions

… is a union for state police officers, who were exempted from the law.) These unions are the Michigan State Employees Association, UAW Local 6000, SEIU 517, AFSCME Council 25 and the Michigan Corrections Officers. Here is a look at the percentage of workers choosing to remain members of these unions …