A world of Woes for the SEIU in Michigan

Good day all. And it is a good day. It seems the Service Employees International Union, (SEIU), is having a little membership and revenue problem. SEIU members are running, not walking for the exits and turning in their union cards.

The SEIU is a union primarily of government workers, although not exclusively. The union has essentially bought the Democrat Party and uses their members money to further the Unions goals, which generally have nothing to do with their members wishes. Recently, Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, passed a measure that prevents unions from directly taking dues from paychecks and requires unions to “Recertify” each year with it’s membership. When that law was finally instituted, union membership across the board all but collapsed. Now, the same thing is happening in Michigan. Here are some for the details from Fox News:

A Michigan branch of the powerful Service Employees International Union saw its membership and revenues plummet after the reversal of a measure that forced caregivers tending to friends or relatives to be members with their dues paid by those they cared for. More than 44,000 home-based healthcare workers parted ways with SEIU Healthcare Michigan after learning they did not have to join the union or pay dues, according to reports the union filed with the U.S. Department of Labor.

Several states have forced people into unions against their will, and people aren’t happy about it. Once they find they can get out from the totalitarian control of the SEIU and other unions, they bolt for the door.

Thousands of the employees were allegedly forced into the union under a plan the SEIU successfully lobbied for that classified even unpaid family members caring for their elderly parents as “home health care workers.” Dues were then automatically collected from the care recipients’ Medicare or Medicaid checks.

The forcing of people into the unions and robbing their medicare and medicaid checks is nothing less then criminal. Those checks aren’t that great to begin with and the caregivers use it for the purposes for which it is meant. Taking care of family members who are no longer able to care for themselves.

“Family members were told they were public employees,” Patrick Wright, director of the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, a Michigan-based policy group, told FoxNews.com. “They are not public employees and this was not proper. “It was an underhanded scheme to get these people in [the union],” he added.

Unions long ago stopped being of any benefit to their membership. Instead, they became a money pump for the PLFD’s. They have destroyed most of the industry in this country, and have destroyed a number of cities, (Detroit being the most famous), and are in the process of bankrupting a number of states. (This was one reason Governor Walker pushed through the Budget Repair Bill ((2011 Wisconsin Act 10)) that so enraged the unions and Wisconsin branch of the PLFD)

The measure, which counted the home healthcare recipient as an employer and the caregiver as an employee, was adopted during the administration of Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm, but abolished by Republicans including current Gov. Rick Snyder, who was elected in 2012. His election coincided with the state’s vote to end forced unionization by approving a right-to-work ballot measure. Snyder subsequently signed a bill that ended the SEIU’s due collection scheme.

When that ballot measure passed recently, it sent shockwaves through the Union leadership. Michigan has always been the jewel in the crown for the Union movement. What they failed to understand was that their membership had left the state when all the jobs at the auto companies went away. Where did those jobs go to? Non-union, right to work states. So how much did the SEIU steal from these people?

Wright’s organization estimates that the SEIU reaped nearly $35 million from Michigan’s elderly and disabled from 2006 to last year.

That’s $35 million dollars that didn’t go to taking care of the sick, elderly and disabled. So how many people left the union once they found out they could?

Of some 59,000 residents classified as home-based caregivers, about 80 percent stopped paying when they learned they did not have to. “What the numbers show is that these people never wanted to be in the union in the first place,” Wright said.

Most people don’t want or need a union these days. The abuses that caused the rise of unions in America no longer exist. Also, Americans are generally a lot better educated about their rights, and with the Internet, they can get a lot more information. The unions were able to grow in the early part of the 20^th century due to several factors. Really bad corporate owners and management that was abusing the workers, (Treating them as serfs really), most of the members having a very poor education, and quite a few being immigrants from Europe. That situation no longer exists in most places. Now what did the SEIU have to say about the developments in Michigan?

Requests for comment to SEIU Healthcare Michigan were not immediately returned.

The person who was handling publicity was laid off. The unpaid intern now handling the response has gone on strike demanding the SEIU start paying the unpaid interns.

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We are now seeing the final collapse of the union movement in the United States. Even when a company actively encourages a union to organize their workforce ((Auto union loses historic election at Volkswagen plant in Tennessee)), the workers generally vote to keep the unions out. They now know that unions do not actually do anything other then steal their members money and enrich the people running the unions. They also see that unions are no longer a constructive force, but a destructive force. When a union comes into a plant, that plant moves to Mexico, or China. It’s going to take a while before the Unions finally collapse, and with their bought and paid for members of congress, (The Progressive Liberal Fascist Democrats), doing all they can to prop them up. Collapse they will and we as a nation will be better for it.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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