In Michigan, if you receive Medicaid benefits for your child, you owe $30 a month dues to SEIU. Why? In 2006 parents of children receiving this aid were classified caregivers and as such, by default, public employees making them automatically members of the union and requiring them to pay union dues to SEIU. Talk about Medicaid Fraud!

In 2006, then Governor Granholm reached this agreement with the union resulting in $6 million or more in additional monies into the union's coffers. In 2010 she also declared that in-home daycare providers were state employees and therefore also required to pay dues. The 2010 decision has since been overturned but the state senate is blocking the overturning of the 2006 requirement.

I expect that soon some "progressive" legislator will declare that Social Security recipients are effectively government employees and required to pay dues.

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17 Comments on In Michigan, If You Get Medicaid for Your Child, You Owe SEIU Monthly Dues!

NOV
14
2011
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Anybody need to wonder why, after decades of Democrat control, Michigan is in the shape it is?
5:17pm • #1
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Just one more bullet in the gun of people that hate Washington/state government corruption.
6:55pm • #2
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Mike

I would say that a stetch on the dues, it make an interesting test case in the courts.

Good luck and success.

Lou Ludwig
9:26pm • #3
NOV
15
2011
525,095 Points 10 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Marxist Unions like SEIU are trying to regain the dominance they once held.   With a Powerless Congress, and pro-Union president Obama , they are gaining ground.

   Election Day November 2012 is "make or break" for the United States of America.  

 
2:14am • #4
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It's not dues, Mike, it's a fee.  The union is working hard and it's leaders need to be compensated for it.  Please call it what it is...

;>)
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8:14am • #6
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Of course the union benefits for the kids is immense! What do you mean they are represented? This is just a pay-off to the unions by politicians!?!?!? I am shocked, SHOCKED!!! /sarcasm
10:21am • #7
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Rich - was that a rhetorical question?

HRG - careful of your metaphors, you will be declared as promoting violence

Lou - wonder if it did go to the courts

Fred - it certainly will be the most important election during my lifetime

Jay - fee schmee! Its a payoff.

Nick - thanks

Than - hey, I didn't say represented!

 
11:08am • #8
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Saunders - Not sure how the SEIU can defend this.  I certainly can't.  Freaking loopholes.
5:46pm • #9
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Yes, a payoff indeed...
6:06pm • #10
NOV
26
2011
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Mike,

This is one of the issues with a union shop state. In right to work states (like Florida), union membership is optional even if its in the company. :)

Steve
7:24pm • #11
DEC
02
2011
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Hi Mike I want to be a govt employee... Does that mean i do not have to work any more. but michigan is cold in the winter so I guess i will stay here. Hope to see you at the Tech show guy
2:46pm • #12
DEC
14
2011
563,876 Points 17 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Sardi - how can the government defend this is really the question

Jay - ya don't think?

Steve - this goes beyond the standard tactics of most non-right-to work states

Charlie - won't be there this coming year, taking some time off for personal reasons
10:56am • #13
JAN
20
2012
494,083 Points 75 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Where have you been man?
2:00pm • #14
FEB
13
2012
698,000 Points 15 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Did you not repeal the Right to Work in your state?  I thought you had....and like Jason says, "where are you?"
5:53pm • #15
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30
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Thank you for sharing your blog; we need Real estate Professionals to share their comments and information regarding their markets and experiences. Thanks again from beautiful Colorado
10:53am • #16
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My gripe today is with the teachers' union in Chicago.  With an offer of a 16% raise over 4 years on the table, they have still gone out on strike.  Their median income is already $76,000, not including benefits.  With 79% of the students not reading at grade level and 80% not math proficient at grade level, the teachers refuse to be evaluated by standardized test scores of their students.

Ridiculous.  This is why school choice, including private schools & home schooling, is so necessary to compete with public sector unions.
6:12am • #17


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