Unions engaging in shady business? I’m shocked.
Via Michigan Capitol Confidential:
The “take” so far from Michigan’s forced unionization of supposed home health care workers for the Service Employees International Union is $28 million. That tally is going up on a monthly basis.
The overwhelming majority of these dollars can be used for almost anything the SEIU desires, including advertising, issue advocacy, lobbying, get out the vote efforts and other political purposes.
According to the Michigan Department of Community Health, the amount of “dues” taken out of subsidy checks that go to “home health care workers’” checks and passed on to the SEIU so far is as follows:
2007: $5,040,263
2008: $4,922,359
2009: $6,058,075
2010: $5,677,792
2011: $6,391,314
Add it up and you get $28,089,803.