SUCCESS! Michigan Loses 80% of SEIU “Members” After State Ends Forced Membership of the Disabled

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This has gotta hurt…
Michigan lost 80% of SEIU members after the state recently ended forced membership of the disabled.
Via Frontpage:

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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