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10 Years Of Michigan Capitol Confidential Online

If CapCon doesn’t report it, who will?

A search for the term “dues skim” on the Michigan Capitol Confidential news site finds it appeared in … deal to “unionize” home caregivers and extract “dues” from the small Medicaid stipends the receive. … declared that unions cannot automatically deduct union dues from home health care providers. This one of many … more

The New Republic Says Unions Are Making a Comeback

But the ancient magazine of political insiders gives no evidence, and Michigan numbers indicate the opposite

… themselves if they want to become a member of and pay dues to a union. Hundreds of union members protested … them at home. Critics called the practice a “dues skim,” as the union justified the takings as a form of dues collection. The union ended up paying damages to … more

Health Care Workers Having Trouble Finding Union That Plays Fair

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

… was behind the home health care dues skim, which orchestrated the forced unionization … here who is currently paying union dues under these circumstances. Thank God … of providing service to earn their dues they'll just use bait-and-switch tactics aimed solely at trying to keep their dues flowing." The NUHW was formed in California … more

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Fall 2012 Edition

… Exist Health Care Unionization Campaign Changes Its Story — Again Legal Foundation Seeks End to Forced Unionization of Home-Based Caregivers SEIU Dues Skim All About Politics Proposal 5: The 2/3 Tax Limitation Tax Limitation Amendment Will Greet Voters in November In the News Obama-Promoted Battery … more

Voters Avert Disaster by Rejecting Proposal 2

… leaders have tested the limits of outrage by even organizing caretakers of disabled family members and labeling them as “public employees” in order to skim dues off their Medicaid payments (a measure Michigan also voted down this election). Rejection of Prop 2 will only come as a surprise to those who believe … more

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Fall 2013 Edition

… Goes After Local Teachers’ Union President MSU English Professor Threatens Students in Anti-Republican Rant SEIU Under Investigation over Prop 4 ‘Dues Skim’ took $35 million from Medicaid recipients Loss of Funding Not To Blame For School District Failures State, Media Encourage Playing the Lottery I'm … more

SEIU Healthcare Michigan is under trusteeship once again

Its second trusteeship in five years owes to ‘substantiated allegations of serious malpractice’

… members, usually without their consent, in a tactic widely known as a ”dues skim.” In Michigan, this diversion came to an end in 2012 when the state amended … home-based day care providers and home health caregivers to sign up and pay union dues. Henry wrote in her letter that the current trusteeship is made necessary … more

Study Says Most Home Health Care Workers Taking Care of Family, Friends

SEIU has taken more than $31M from workers; union 'shellgame' hurts disabled

… Help Program as a potential dues-producing source. To date, … it would ensnare into paying dues are just family members of … continue to be forced to pay dues as if they were interested … like to say that those who get dues taken out of their checks are … It's All About the Money 'Dues Skim' Ballot Proposal Proponents … more

Connecticut Now Struggling With Caregiver Unionization Efforts

SEIU loss in Michigan not stopping the union

Michigan’s home-based caregiver dues skim should be on its last legs with the rejection of Proposal … scheme, the SEIU has taken nearly $33 million from dues taken out of Michigan caregivers’ Medicaid checks. … Michigan Capitol Confidential Coverage of the SEIU Dues Skim more

Voters Reject Special Interest Power Plays

Proposals 2-6 soundly defeated

… stranglehold on workers and their dues," Terry Bowman, a UAW member and president … night. "Union officials have wasted our dues on a project doomed to fail from the … for the Mackinac Center, said the skimming of union dues will end at the latest when the collective … more

Count of Proposed Government Expansions and Limitations in State of the State Address Available Wednesday Night

Mackinac Center policy experts available to comment on Gov. Snyder’s remarks

… using a shell employer known as the Michigan Quality Community Care Council, has “organized” self-employed home health aides for the purpose of skimming dues from their ailing and disabled clients’ Medicaid subsidy checks. The state House passed a bill to end this practice last summer, but it has not … more

Arc Michigan Exec's Name-Calling Goes Against Group's Own Pledge

Dohn Hoyle, who also is Prop 4 spokesman, called parent caregiver Robert Haynes 'an idiot'

… year from the Medicaid money of the elderly and disabled in Michigan as "union dues." The union has taken more than $32 million to date from people who mostly … after reading a story in Michigan Capitol Confidential about the union skimming money from home help providers. ~~~~~ See also: Father Taking Care … more

The Price Tag on the Ballot Proposals

Constitutional changes would cost billions to Michigan taxpayers, citizens

… disposable personal income in 2025, when the proposal is fully implemented. Proposal 4. Voting “yes” on Proposal 4 would constitutionalize the SEIU dues skim, costing home-based caregivers $6 million annually. Proposal 5 and Proposal 6 have uncertain price tags. As Michael LaFaive explains in his literature … more

What Should the Next Legislature Do?

… since enacted into law, including significant net tax relief, cuts to corporate welfare, greatly expanded school choice, bans on unseemly union dues-skimming schemes, and of course the nation’s 24th right-to-work law. This isn’t the entire Mackinac Center agenda, but it would be a good next step. Hopefully … more

Case Ends; Forced Unionization Still a Threat

Attorney: Policymakers should ensure it can't happen again, end similar scheme affected home health care providers

… unionized, allowing $6 million annually to be skimmed from a program meant to aid developmentally disabled … legal options for seeking reimbursement of the dues money illegally taken from day care providers are … of several Michigan clients seeking repayment of dues money. more

Court of Claims Tosses MEA's Right-to-Work Lawsuit

State Capitol was closed when union protesters pushed past guards, impeded medical workers

… passed at 7:30 p.m. "This frivolous waste of union members' hard-earned dues money was a futile attempt to turn back the clock to the now-discredited … Violent Most of the Arrested Anti Right-to-Work Protesters Have SEIU 'Dues Skim' Connections 'We'll Be at Your Daughter's Soccer Game' more

The Legislative Clock is Ticking

It's time for free-market reformers to act

… enacted significant collective bargaining reforms and banned the SEIU’s “dues skim” of day care providers. The Legislature kept up a good pace of reform … and equipment, banning the use of government resources to collect union dues and, famously, enacting the nation’s 24th right-to-work law. Since then, … more

The Legislative Clock is Ticking

It’s time for free-market reformers to act

… enacted significant collective bargaining reforms and banned the SEIU’s “dues skim” of day care providers. The Legislature kept up a good pace of reform … and equipment, banning the use of government resources to collect union dues and, famously, enacting the nation’s 24th right-to-work law. Republicans … more

Home Health Care Ballot Initiative Would Usurp Power From the Governor

SEIU-backed proposal would lock union perks into the state constitution

… International Union to continue receiving dues money from the Medicaid checks of people … the federal Home Help Program as a dues-producing source. Under the federal … labeled as “home health care workers.” Dues started being deducted from their Medicaid … Intact - It's All About the Money 'Dues Skim' Ballot Proposal Proponents Cloud … more

Right-to-Work Law Means Less Money For Union Political Power Grabs

… constitution was where membership dues often went. For example: In … International Union and continued the skimming of tens of millions of dollars … they tend to lower the cost of dues and spend less time and money … strongly many of their forced dues payers felt about certain issues … on political issues. When dues payers can truly choose whether … more

The Public Employee Union Problem

… Act, private-sector unions are allowed to extract dues and fees from workers if the employer is a unionized … and condition of employment; third, union takes dues (read: taxpayer money) and starts the cycle all … to be forced to pay money to the SEIU. The "dues skim" lead to a legislative fight, an attempted ballot … more

Interlocal Agreements — Good Intent, Bad Practice

… Healthcare Michigan. The SEIU takes union dues from the Medicaid subsidies paid to … County and Municipal Employees. Union dues were skimmed from subsidy checks sent to day care … over the illegal withholding of those dues, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder effectively … more

MCQ3 Response To 'Forced Unionization'

… Michigan Capitol Confidential reported about the 'dues skim' from Michigan home health care providers to … the vast majority's only involvement is to have dues extracted from their checks that is then sent to … your home health care workers are having union dues extracted from Medicaid checks? Also, how many … more

Hospital SEIU Members Say Home-Based Caregivers Get 'No Benefit' From Proposal 4

'They don’t receive sick time. They don’t get vacation time. They can’t file a grievance'

… the majority (more that 44,000) of those paying dues to the union are home-based caregivers who take … Michigan, is using Proposal 4 to try to keep the dues flowing by locking the scheme into the state constitution. … Home-Based Caregivers Infighting at the SEIU SEIU Dues Skim All About Politics more

How CapCon Uses Transparency Laws to Hold Government Accountable

… law is vital to performing our mission. In just the last year, CapCon has used FOIA requests to break the following stories and more: The SEIU “dues skim,” which has taken more than $30 million from home health care workers, many of them taking care of their own relatives. The multi-million dollar … more

All Five Constitutional Amendments Soundly Defeated

Emergency manager law repealed

… voters Tuesday, including two that received heavy union backing that would have locked collective bargaining for government union employees and a dues skim that has taken $32 million from Michigan’s most vulnerable residents into the state constitution. “Today, the voters of Michigan sent a clear message,” … more

Democrat Mark Schauer Receiving the Big Donations in Gubernatorial Race

But despite appearances, political race contributions reflect typical pattern

Though Michigan’s gubernatorial candidates differ on issues like right-to-work, the SEIU dues skim and government regulations, the apparent contrast between their campaign finance reports could come as a surprise to many. Lists of campaign contributions to former Congressman Mark Schauer, the Democratic … more

What the Mackinac Center is Thankful for in 2019

Freedom, fairness and fiscal responsibility

… caregivers. The White House thanked the Mackinac Center for our “fantastic report,” which provided a roadmap for the federal government to end the dues skim. A host of bills moving through the Legislature gets rid of unnecessarily licensing regulations and will make it easier for people to find work. … more

The Best of the Best: CapCon's Top 10 Stories of 2014

Police seize property; religious discrimination in school contracts; Obamacare piles on disabled family’s burdens

… business tools and equipment. 10. SEIU Membership Drops 80 Percent After Dues Skim Ends Once they were free to choose for themselves whether to pay dues money to the SEIU union, most home-based caregivers in Michigan quickly … more

25 Reforms in 2011

… loyalty. This new law clears things up. 20. No more dues for the illegal day care and home health care union. The … day care providers and the home health care "dues skim" are over. The latter "skim" resulted in $7 million annually being funneled … more

A Look at Unions in Michigan, Five Years After Right-to-Work

Most of state’s largest unions have seen a collapse in members and political spending

… whether to be members and pay dues to unions. Since then, nine … loss in union membership and dues. Below is a summary of union … membership; we only count full, dues-paying, voting members). Political … Operating Engineers 324 had 15,007 dues payers in 2012, but it was … Legislature ending the “dues skim” (automatic unionization), … more

GOP Senator Tries to Save SEIU Healthcare ‘Employer’

… expiration date — and collect dues for a government-sector union. “The union dues are still being withheld and … preserve it for the sake of skimming ‘union dues’ from independent contractors.” … contractors were compelled to become dues-paying members of SEIU Healthcare … more

‘Protect Our Jobs’ Would Protect the 3 Percent at the Expense of the 97 Percent

… claim home-based day care owners were government workers, and started taking dues from them. Some $4 million was taken before the scheme ended after an 18-month … battle led by the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation. And the SEIU is still skimming $30 million and counting from people, including parents, who care for … more

Proposal 2 Could Protect Teachers Who Are Drunk, Dealing Drugs in the Classroom

Bay City contract shows what can happen when local union provisions overrule state laws

… employee unions is the inherent conflict of interest of unions extracting dues to pay officials to set worker compensation — and this is exacerbated at … assaulting students; and A conspiracy between a union and elected officials to skim more than $32 million from disabled poor people’s Medicaid checks. The … more

Unions, Government Entities Team Up to Keep Information From Citizens

… money. Transparency laws are important. In just the few years we have used FOIA requests to break dozens of major news stories. Exposing the SEIU “dues skim,” where the union teamed up with the administration of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm to take more than $32 million from home-based caregivers — most … more

How We Use FOIA to Hold Government Accountable

Happy ‘Sunshine Week’ 2017

… people affected had no idea they were even in a union. Nevertheless, unions skimmed tens of millions of dollars in dues from government subsidies meant for the poor and disabled before legislators … more

Interlocal Agreements – Good Intent, Bad Practice

… Healthcare Michigan. The SEIU takes union dues from the Medicaid subsidies paid to … by the UAW and AFSCME. These union dues were skimmed from a federal day care subsidy grant … over the illegal withholding of union dues from private day care providers’ subsidy … more

Minnesota Governor Should Look to California, Not Michigan, on Unionization of Child Care Providers

… members. Similar to private child care provider unions in other states, union dues would be skimmed from government child care subsidy checks. There are two vastly divergent … more

GOP Fumbles: On Verge of Giving MEA Huge Pension Win

… R-Saginaw, well-known to CapCon readers as the politician who for 10 months prevented the Senate from enacting a House-passed bill to end a notorious SEIU "dues skim" of home health care aides. Along with 11 other Senate Republicans, Sen. Kahn voted for the transformational reform on May 17 before voting against … more

Government Entities Stymie FOIA Requests To Hide Information

Michigan Legislators pushing for change

… FOIA bills. ~~~~~ In the past few years, Michigan Capitol Confidential has used FOIA requests to break the following stories. Exposing the SEIU “dues skim,” where the Service Employees International Union created a scheme during the administration of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm to take more than $34 million … more

State's Corporate Welfare Agency Has a History of Secrecy

… whether the interlocal agreement required prior approval by the Legislature. With a few notorious exceptions (such as the home health care provider dues skim created later by Gov. Granholm), most interlocal agreements are unremarkable devices used to avoid red tape in certain government services, such … more

CapCon Interview with Founding Editor Ken Braun and Mackinac Center President Joseph G. Lehman

On its fifth year anniversary, a history lesson

… ended the SEIU’s unconscionable skimming of so-called dues dollars from Medicaid recipients without … Gov. Snyder pulled the plug on the skim. Our success laid the groundwork for … Supreme Court, which outlawed similar skims nationwide. You could even make a … more