{"id":15366,"date":"2014-07-01T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T18:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=15366"},"modified":"2020-10-13T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:22:15","slug":"seiu-to-change-name-to-siou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=15366","title":{"rendered":"SEIU to change name to SIOU?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. Now that the Supreme Court has finished for the year, one of the big decisions, the one regarding forcing people who are home health care workers to pay dues, may end up putting a major dent in the finances of the Service Employees International Union.<\/p>\n

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The SEIU, which has benefited richly from their political cronies reclassifying home healthcare workers as state employees and forcing them to pay the union, might be forced to repay all that money from the people they took it from. Here are some of the details from Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One of the nation’s most powerful labor unions could face a costly onslaught of lawsuits seeking tens of millions of dollars in dues, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the money was collected improperly, legal experts said. <\/i><\/p>\n

In a ruling Monday, the high court held that Service Employees International Union cannot force people who care for loved ones to be union members and deduct dues from the government checks of those they care for. The practice has gone on for several years in a handful of states, creating a lucrative stream of cash for the powerful labor organization, which represents more than 2 million workers and takes in about $300 million per year. <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole point of the decision was that the folks milked by the SEIU weren\u2019t really public employees and should not be forced to pay union dues at all,” said Hans Bader, senior attorney for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “So they should be able to sue for refund of their compelled union dues back as far as the statute of limitations will allow. \u201cIt could have a large effect,\u201d he added.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Bwahahahahahahah! Unions, especially the SEIU, exist as nothing more than a large scale, government backed extortion racket. Today, the only ones who actually benefit from union membership are the fatcats running the unions. The membership? They usually get screwed. Now the people forced to pay the unions for the \u201cprivilege\u201d of taking care of sick family members will have a chance to screw the unions over for a change.<\/p>\n

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Home health aides have become a key segment of SEIU’s base, comprising about 20 percent of the union’s membership. In Illinois and other states, they were classified as public-sector workers, paid out of the proceeds of entitlement checks and thus automatically members of the SEIU. Harris’ 25-year-old son, who suffers from a genetic disorder called Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome, receives a monthly Medicaid check of approximately $1,300, from which about $90 was automatically deducted for union dues. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When the governor Pat Quinn, in a blatant payoff to the SEIU, reclassified by executive order thousands of people as state workers and started deducting dues from their benefit checks, it caused real pain for people. No one asked the home healthcare workers if they wanted to be in a union. They were basically held up and robbed. The SEIU promptly endorsed Quinn\u2019s reelection bid and took all that money they were now getting to keep Quinn and the Democrats in office. Now, thanks to the Supreme Court, those very same slaves<\/i><\/span> workers can now sue to get that money back, probably with interest.<\/p>\n

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It is unclear exactly how much the SEIU reaped in the stricken dues collection scheme, but in Illinois, the union took in an estimated $20 million per year in dues collected from home health care and day care workers.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Yeah, that\u2019s going to hurt the bottom line if they are forced to pay all that money back.<\/p>\n

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Many of those workers are employed by state contractors and could opt to continue to be represented by the union. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Somehow, I don\u2019t think that will happen. The SEIU doesn\u2019t actually do much for them, and if the union were actually helpful, they would have joined on their own.<\/p>\n

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Although Monday’s ruling specifically applies to 26,000 home health care workers in Illinois, it could eventually affect hundreds of thousands of unionized home health care workers in states including California, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

*Cha Ching!* goes the cash register. If all the workers forced at gunpoint into paying the SEIU and other unions, (Figuratively speaking), decide to get that money back, the SEIU is going to have a major cash flow problem, probably just in time for the 2016 presidential election. The SEIU, of course, is well into denial of what is going to happen to their bank accounts.<\/p>\n

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Although the SEIU did not address the dues collection issue specifically, officials expressed confidence that workers will continue to see value in collective bargaining. <\/i><\/p>\n

“No court case is going to stand in the way of home care workers coming together to have a strong voice for good jobs and quality home care,” said SEIU President Mary Kay Henry. “At a time when wages remain stagnant and income inequality is out of control, joining together in a union is the only proven way home care workers have of improving their lives and the lives of the people they care for.” <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps. Ms. Henry should put down the bong, stop snorting coke and take a look at what has been happening in Wisconsin. After Governor Walker pushed through his reforms, union members couldn\u2019t move fast enough to get out of the unions they had been forced to join as a condition of employment. A few locals have actually closed due to the collapse in their memberships. Basically, all they had left were the people running the union. There serfs bolted for the door with their money as fast as their feet could carry them.<\/p>\n

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If workers cannot be automatically signed up, the union will have to actively court them and membership will almost certainly drop. In Michigan, where the SEIU had dues deducted directly from Medicare checks sent to people cared for in their homes by loved ones, the practice ended when lawmakers passed legislation in 2012 making it a right-to-work state. Membership among people previously classified as home health workers plunged by 80 percent by some measures. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The former \u201cmembers\u201d could see what the unions were doing for them. Nothing. Nada. Zippo. The Big Bupkis and they decided that the best place for all that money being extorted from them was in their own bank accounts, not some union fatcat\u2019s vacation home in the Cayman Islands.<\/p>\n

What we are starting to see is the end of the Union as we know it. Most unions have long since outlived their usefulness. They exist primarily as a way for the PLFD to get money to buy elections for themselves. Forcing workers to pay for the reelection of politicians who they don\u2019t support is evil, but then so are the Progressive Liberal Fascist Democrats. Slowly but surely, the day will come when the last union closes its doors. That day can\u2019t come soon enough, and if all the people who they looted can claw back the dues they were forced to pay, the SEIU could find itself, in the words of Hillary Rodham Clinton, \u201cDead Broke.\u201d Unlike Hillary, the SEIU would really be broke. What a pleasant thought to start the 4th<\/sup> of July weekend.<\/p>\n

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