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Ballot Proposal Would Exploit Disabled Medicaid Recipients for Union’s Political Agenda

… these payments as “dues,” the SEIU quietly has taken more than … among those designated by the SEIU as government employees simply … Information Act records show that the SEIU has paid the MQCCC $12,000. The SEIU appears willing to prop up … government workers. But the SEIU filed suit in federal court, …

Mystery Contribution Kept ‘Dues Skim’ Alive

Union gave dummy employee $12,000, but that money not specified on federal report

… not included on the report. SEIU Healthcare Michigan, an affiliate … item that specifies that the SEIU gave $12,000 to the Michigan … 2006 until March 31, 2013, the SEIU took more than $34 million … of a mail-in election, the SEIU said it got enough votes to … MQC3 received $12,000 from the SEIU in early 2012. Due to that …

Roots of SEIU Forced Unionization 'Money Skim' Lead To Former ACORN Organizer

… more than $28 million to the SEIU, which the union can use for … 56.442 people are paying dues to SEIU Healthcare Michigan, the division of the SEIU technically involved in the forced unionization. SEIU Healthcare Michigan spokesman … by the U.S. Supreme Court. SEIU Healthcare Michigan notifies …

'Forced Unionization' Employer Out of the Picture, But Dues Keep Flowing To SEIU

Despite state officials' past certainty, some now unsure who actually 'employs' home health care workers

… dues continue to roll into SEIU coffers. So far, the SEIU has taken more than $28 million … taxpayer-provided checks and sent to the SEIU. Under the administration … currently paying dues to the SEIU is 56,422. On Jan. 28, 2012, … are still paying dues to the SEIU. Rep. Opsommer points out …

Health Care Workers Having Trouble Finding Union That Plays Fair

Union member: 'Thank God that Michigan is now a right-to-work state'

… questionable manner. The specific SEIU affiliate involved was SEIU Healthcare Michigan, the same … agreement. After leaving the SEIU, the health care workers in … officials who broke away from the SEIU.  Officials from the NUHW … Health Care Workers Get Out of SEIU Health Care Workers Vote to …

Union Health Care Ballot Supporters Say They Have Enough Signatures for a Vote

Union claimed First Amendment rights in court; ballot promoters now claim it's to protect workers, patients

… allowed in said no one from the SEIU was present. Instead, the announcement … home caregivers' checks. The SEIU then had attorneys from San … the dues flow continues]," SEIU attorney Scott Kronland told … patients and workers. "The SEIU has openly admitted to the … are being forced to fund the SEIU's political machine. Since these …

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Look At Forced Unionization

Illinois case could free home-based caregivers nationwide

… involved in Illinois are the SEIU and the American Federation … Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the SEIU and AFSCME used dummy employers … Capitol Confidential of the SEIU Dues Skim Legal Foundation … Return Of 'Dues Skim' Money SEIU Election Battle Hinges On Home-Based … Unionization Scheme Infighting At The SEIU How the Forced Unionization …

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 …

Two Wins for Freedom from Union Coercion in 2014

The end of the dues skim and the busting of the 'August Window'

… what later became known as the SEIU dues skim. It was a scheme … forced unionization and the SEIU maneuvering to keep it going. … of the millions of dollars SEIU was taking from home-based … to outlaw the dues skim. The SEIU went to court to keep it alive … of 2013 – but only after the SEIU had extracted more than $34 …

Even After Right-to-Work, Unions Still Big Political Spenders in Michigan

Organized labor gave millions to Democratic candidates and groups in 2018

… This data comes from state and federal campaign spending filings. The SEIU’s affiliated super PAC, United We Can, made almost $1.3 million in independent … board elections, state board of regent races and judicial elections. The SEIU Michigan State Council made a $25,000 contribution to Gov. Whitmer’s campaign. …

Media Resoundingly Rejects Prop 2, Prop 4

Only two weekly newspapers support either of the union-backed plans to alter the state constitution

… universally urged readers to vote "no" on Proposal 4. The SEIU has taken more than $32 million from the Medicaid … scheme when Jennifer Granholm was governor. The SEIU needs the amendment to pass to continue the scheme, … a "self-serving measure that enriches only the SEIU." Even some disability advocates are against the …

Relationship Problems

Government employee unions should not be eligible for special tax breaks. Here's why.

… 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 …

Exhibits List for Patricia Haynes and Steven Glossop v. Service Employees International Union Healthcare Michigan and the Michigan Quality Community Care Council

… Beneficiary Bulletin MQCCC and SEIU Addendum to Consent Election … Senate Subcommittee Selected SEIU MERC certification documents … Agreement between MQCCC and SEIU 2009-September 20, 2012 Collective … Agreement between MQCCC and SEIU FOIA response related to amount … Assorted documents related to SEIU $12,000 provision to MQCCC …

Who pays the most for minimum wage?

On July 24, 2012, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) rallied to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.55 an hour. In Michigan, there is currently an effort to raise the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2015. It would be the highest in the country. The Mackinac Center's Director of …

Father Taking Care of His Disabled Adult Kids Called An 'Idiot' by Proposal 4 Spokesman

The Arc Michigan Executive Director Dohn Hoyle resorts to name-calling against Robert Haynes because Haynes doesn't support forced unionization scheme

… Last year we were put into the SEIU without our knowledge.  In … children. We didn't join the SEIU.  We now pay monthly dues that … his family. At the time, the SEIU "dues skim" was almost unknown. … eligible to be unionized, the SEIU continues to take about $6 … He never heard back from the SEIU despite repeated requests for …

Proposal 4: The Unionization of Home-Based Caregivers

… of members friendly to the SEIU, and it would act as the providers’ … compensate or supervise them. The SEIU’s “collective bargaining” with … Schieber, March 19, 2012 The SEIU in Michigan: Home Health Aides … Michigan Senate Republicans Allow SEIU to Bully Home Caregivers Anne … 2012 Jack Spencer Discusses SEIU Dues on “The Frank Beckmann …

Interlocal Agreements – Good Intent, Bad Practice

… provided a so-called public “employer” for the SEIU to create the 55,000 member SEIU Healthcare Michigan. The SEIU takes union dues from the Medicaid subsidies paid …

Mackinac Center Legal Foundation

… Sherry Loar is a home daycare provider in Petoskey, Michigan. With the Legal Foundation’s help, she managed to fight and win her case against the SEIU. Read her story. < 1 / 3 > “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It’s a wonderful feeling knowing you guys were there, and I was not fighting this battle …