Topic: SEIU pocket picking

[BMG]

Be sure to sit down and take an antacid or something before your read this...it had me throwing things across the room.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/11/seiu-picking-pockets-of-families-of-disabled-in-michigan/

If you’re a parent who accepts Medicaid payments from the State of Michigan to help support your mentally-disabled adult children,  you qualify as a state employee for the purposes of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). They can now claim and receive a portion of your Medicaid in the form of union dues.

Robert and Patricia Haynes live in Michigan with their two adult children, who have cerebral palsy. The state government provides the family with insurance through Medicaid, but also treats them as caregivers. For the SEIU, this makes them public employees and thus members of the union, which receives $30 out of the family’s monthly Medicaid subsidy. The Michigan Quality Community Care Council (MQC3) deducts union dues on behalf of SEIU.

Michigan Department of Community Health Director Olga Dazzo explained the process in to her members of her staff.  “MQC3 basically runs the program for SEIU and passes the union dues from the state to the union,” she wrote in an emailobtained by the Mackinac Center. Initiated in 2006 under then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., the plan reportedly provides the SEIU with $6 million annually in union dues deducted from those Medicaid subsidies.

[Pandora]

Gov. Rick Snyder, R-Mich., already ended a similar scheme to provide unions with new “public employees” in the area of child care. His predecessor, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., had classified in-home daycare providers as public employees — a designation that forced them to pay union dues but conferred no other benefits upon them. Snyder’s director of the Department of Human Services ended that program. “[We] will stop all funding and, because these providers are not state employees, will also cease collecting union dues,” DHS director Maura Corrigan said at the time.

IIRC, another state's general assembly passed legislation forbidding the same union-initiated shenanigans in the arena of re-classifying relatives caring for their disabled family members on Medicaid as "home healthcare workers"; might have been Oregon.

Michigan's GA needs to get to work ending this scheme as well.  These unions are unbelievable in how far they're willing to go.

[BMG]

Unbelievable, yes. I would describe it more as 'raping and pillaging' the country and they should be legally responsible for this crap. 

[warpmine]

Unbelievable, yes. I would describe it more as 'raping and pillaging' the country and they should be legally responsible for this crap. 

Sure, like that would happen. Getting a DemonRat to sign on legislation that could implicate him/her for their destructive actions. Be like Obama standing on podium admitting that his election was a terrible mistake. Any idea what date Hell will freeze over?