MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL
November/December 2009 Edition
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A news service for the people of Michigan from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Public School Official Says Parents Don't "Necessarily" Know What School Is Best For Their Children
Debbie Squires of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association speaks to the House Education Committee.
"Educators go through education for a reason. They are the people who know best about how to serve children. That is not necessarily true about an individual resident. Not saying that they don't want the best for their children, but they may not know what actually is best from an education standpoint."
While People Wait for the Senate,
SEIU TAKES $28M and Counting
FROM Michigan HOME HEALTH CARE AIDES
SEIU TAKES $28M and Counting
FROM Michigan HOME HEALTH CARE AIDES
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Skimmed Since 2007
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Skimmed Since Arrival in MI Senate in June 2011
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) "organized” Michigan's self-employed home health aides for the purpose of skimming dues from their ailing and disabled clients' Medicaid subsidy checks.
The first counter tallies SEIU dues skimmed since the union and state officials first launched this scheme in 2007. The second shows the amount skimmed since June 9, 2011, when the Michigan House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to ban this and all similar “stealth unionization” efforts.
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