Posted on 08/18/2014 2:16:17 PM PDT by Sopater
WAUWATOSA, Wis. — A home health-care company contracted with the Milwaukee County Department of Family Care is accusing a local labor union of forging workers’ signatures to collect more money for political activity.
Art Beck, a Milwaukee attorney representing Sally Sprenger, owner of Supportive Homecare Options Inc., told Wisconsin Reporter two employees have come forward since April alleging they were signed up to make contributions without their authority.
The contributions were for the Committee on Political Education through the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Wisconsin.
After reviewing their forms for voluntary COPE deductions, which help fund union causes for political gain, the workers discovered their signatures were fraudulent, Beck said.
“It’s like a foreign document to them,” Beck said of the COPE application sheet. “They never saw it (before).”
SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin in May agreed to conduct an internal investigation after Supportive Homecare Options contacted the union about the complaints.
Dian Palmer, president of SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin, wrote Beck on Aug. 11, saying she could not find proof that any of her people signed the COPE documents.
“We have spoken to our staff to determine if there were any circumstances in which they had signed cards for members,” Palmer says in the letter. “They state they have not, and we do not have evidence to the contrary.”
But Sprenger contends SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin should be able to figure out who penned the COPE applications. Union representatives receive a commission whenever they sign someone up for the voluntary deductions, she said.
“If the people who signed our employees’ names got a commission off this, we think they should be able to go back into their books and see who did it … How could you not have data on who got the commission on these people?” Sprenger said.
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The union investigated themselves and declared that they were innocent. How convenient.
Next thing you know, they’ll say the hard drive crashed, on which all the records were kept as to who got kickbacks for signing people up.
No can’t be , Unions are not Slush Funds for the Democrats ,D’oh
The county passed a “living wage” for contractors, $10 something an hr I think. Union companies are exempt from this requirement. The owner of this business decided to give all her employees raises rather than force them into a union. This is not acceptable to the union or their puppets on the County Board.
SEIU = RICO
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