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Relationship Problems

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

… (Another SEIU local, #526M, represents about 8,200 corrections staff.) As we have reported on this blog, another SEIU subsidiary, the Member Action Services Center, received $2 million in refundable Michigan Economic Growth Authority tax credits last month. Details of the new contract remain sketchy, …

SEIU/MASC: Curiouser and Curiouser

MEDC moved fast to secure a union operation for Michigan, but did they really need to?

Our ongoing examination of the SEIU-Member Action Service Center (we’re calling it MASC for short) continues to bring up interesting nuggets of information … operation MEGA credits was the possibility that SEIU might put the Member Action Service Center elsewhere. The timing of the application and grant was not …

The Expensive Mystery of “Project Cherrywood”

… Service Employees International Union subsidiary known as the Member Action Services Center. As with "Cloverfield," one is left wondering just what one … the pay cut easier for SEIU officers to swallow. Second, the Member Action Service Center will supposedly provide administrative support, such as grievance …

What The...?

MEDC grant to SEIU raises all kinds of questions

… insurance regulation, the federal stimulus package, state tax increases and national health care legislation. Can MEDC guarantee that the "Member Action Service Center" that its funds are to be used for will not be a political operation itself? Can MEDC guarantee that the facility will not be used for …

What's Hiding Under the MASC?

It's Not Easy Getting Answers out of the MEDC

… posts on the Michigan Economic Growth Authority's decision to grant a $2 million tax credit to the Service Employees International Union Member Action Service Center (MASC — get it?), we stated that the credit was refundable. To this point, we have yet to see any evidence that this report was incorrect. …

Michigan Forces Business Owners Into Public-Sector Union

… to the story in the Great Lakes state. Recently the Michigan Economic Development Corp. granted a for-profit SEIU subsidiary, the SEIU Member Action Service Center, a $2 million refundable tax credit to locate a new business facility in the state that will provide administrative services for the union …