The SEIU is hurting a bit today, after being stung with a huge member walk-out.
Some 44,000 home-based healthcare workers decided to leave SEIU Healthcare Michigan when they found out that they did not have to join the union, or even pay the required dues.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.
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“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.-FOX News
The SEIU is said to have received nearly “$35 million from Michigan’s elderly and disabled from 2006 to last year. 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.”
