Posted on 03/07/2013 12:16:52 PM PST by MichCapCon
The SEIU "skim tracker" has finally stopped.
The scrolling money ticker had been calculating the amount of money the Service Employees International Union was taking from home-based caregivers because of a forced unionization scheme that was orchestrated in 2005 when Jennifer Granholm was governor.
As of today, March 1, Michigan's home-based caregivers no longer are unionized. The contract between the union and the dummy employer used for the scheme officially ended Feb. 28.
According to the Michigan Department of Community Health, the February Medicaid checks it sends to home-based caregivers will be mailed on March 4. These are the checks the SEIU was taken money from. The checks mailed in March are expected to be the last ones from which union dues will be deducted.
"It has been a long, winding and courageous battle," said Pat Wright, senior legal analyst at Mackinac Center for Public Policy. "I'm glad to see that justice is finally being reached.
The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation has filed a legal action with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission to try and get about $3 million returned to home-based caregivers. That case is ongoing.
As a result of the scheme, the SEIU took more than $34 million, mostly from unsuspecting workers who are taking care of family and friends in their own homes.
The skim tracker wont be removed until the end of the dues skim can be fully verified in April.
Granholm should be in prison for allowing this thievery to occur. Obviously, she did not care much about the workers. Her union thug pals came first. Well, they got her elected so I guess she owed them.
Yikes! Thugs Inc.
And what are the plans to return this money to those it was stolen from? All they need is a few paycheck stubs. To whom will they be directed to present those for remuneration?
GRRRRREAT news! Thanks for the post; ping/info; thread. DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
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