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SEIU 'Skim Tracker' Stops Ticking
Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 3/5/2013 | Jack Spencer

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 won’t be removed until the end of the dues skim can be fully verified in April.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: biglabor; michigan; seiu; union; unions

1 posted on 03/07/2013 12:16:55 PM PST by MichCapCon
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To: Springman; Sioux-san; 70th Division; JPG; PGalt; DuncanWaring; taildragger; epluribus_2; Chuck54; ..
It was a good day.

If anyone wants to be added to the Michigan Cap Con ping list, let me know.
2 posted on 03/07/2013 12:22:22 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: MichCapCon

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.


3 posted on 03/07/2013 12:25:04 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Progressive, Marxist liberals do not evolve, they morph into fascists.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
She had plenty of republican help and many of them have their eyes on higher office. (which is why they then voted for RTW). Here is Roger Kahn, one of the "republican" co sponsors of the bill that brought the fake employers into being. He's looking at running for Carl Levin's seat.

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GOP Senators, SEIU Taxpayer Giveaways, Campaign Cash and More, OH MY!

Only a fool would make Roger Kahn an untouchable DC senator.
4 posted on 03/07/2013 12:39:40 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

Yikes! Thugs Inc.


5 posted on 03/07/2013 12:50:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Progressive, Marxist liberals do not evolve, they morph into fascists.)
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To: MichCapCon
As a result of the scheme, the SEIU took more than $34 million

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?

6 posted on 03/07/2013 1:43:35 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
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To: MichCapCon; cripplecreek; All

GRRRRREAT news! Thanks for the post; ping/info; thread. DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.


7 posted on 03/07/2013 8:43:19 PM PST by PGalt
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