Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 05/08/2014 11:58:48 AM PDT by lowbridge
There’s absolutely incomprehensible black-hearted rotten-souled evil. And then a step beneath that, there’s SEIU.
Melissa and Kevin Haynes were born with hypertonic cerebral palsy, a severe disability that impaired their cognitive development, leaving them functioning as infants. For more than 30 years, their devoted parents, Robert and Patricia, have cared for them in their home in Macomb Township, Mich. The two disabled adults received Medicaid checks each month, money that went toward their care. But in 2006, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) began collecting 2.75 percent from each of these checks, claiming that Robert and Patricia were employees — not only of their own children but also of the Michigan state government.
Michigan’s legislature voted in 2012 to put an end to this so-called dues-skimming practice, which the SEIU used to collect more than $34 million from the state’s disabled and elderly residents. The new law took effect in 2013 after a legal challenge had caused a year’s delay. Around the same time, right-to-work legislation ended compulsory union membership.
The result: In the last year, union membership in SEIU’s Healthcare Michigan has plummeted by an astounding 80 percent.
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Heh heh heh. SEIU. Sucks Eggs In Unison.
Can you hear that Whooshing noise? It’s all the air rushing out of the overly inflated Hindenberg called THE UNION. “Oh! The Humanity!!”
I had to work with them at a NYC hospital. My fondest memories of working there are of when they were outside on strike and I could get my job done without their obstructive, racist hatred spewing silliness and clogging up my schedule.
My husband, as a manager, had to deal with the NYC waiters’ union. He never had so much trouble in his life. He could not fire the shop steward who would moon guests at our private club and would turn up to wait tables in shorts and t-shirt. My husband has since left this job but the shop steward is still there...and still mooning guests.
They should be forced to pay retroactive refunds.
I cannot think of anything more sleazy than skimming money from the aid checks for those families caring for disabled children, parents or other relatives.
Crap like this is why unions must be abolished, and why the cretin who thought of doing this needs to be taken out and publicly horse whipped.
I’ll guess there’s special rooms in hell for these cretins.
Yes. Relocate that behavior to workers at a major metropolitan hospital and that’s about right
I never hated Unions until I saw what my husband went through. I’ll never get over it. Aren’t you glad you’re out of it?
Ugh. I could not practice proper pt care. I got outta there
They knew everything about their union rules. Not so much about their jobs. That was secondary
And racist
Yes! While we had good union workers, we also had mentally disturbed union members who were obsessed with their union rules and simply refused to do their jobs. In fact, one of them sat down in a seat at a table full of patrons (or guests, as we called them). What kind of mentality is that?!
I have stories!
I’m sure you have stories. The unions have destroyed themselves through greed, corruption, selfishness and generally morally lax behavior. They are now reaping what they sowed.
Which happens when you don’t peek into the bible once in a while.
I am not surprised at this 80% opt our number.
Awful.
And they were gamblers. Addicted to the ‘numbers’
Just thought I’d say.
Stealing money from moms and dads - taking food out of the mouths of their sick children. They deserve everything that happens to them.
Good point. Thanks cc.
Liberals are NOT nice people...
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