Is SEIU Using Unionization to Extort Medicaid Money From Home Caregivers?
- Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:02pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Michigan’s elderly citizens have a problem — their Medicare money may be funding unions rather than their own care. Breitbart.com reports that following a scheme by the SEIU to unionize home care givers for elderly people and disabled children, the SEIU has been pilfering millions of dollars from Michigan’s coffers in mandatory dues — dollars that could have gone toward higher wages for caregivers, or better care being offered. Watch a video courtesy of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy explaining the problem here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhe-9kAkq5I
The Blaze has covered this topic before. We brought you the story of Robert and Patricia Haynes – two parents in Michigan who the SEIU has been collecting dues from for taking care of their own children. Shame is apparently not this particular group’s strong suit.
And — and this may surprise a few Michiganders — Republicans may be letting the unions get away with this by refusing to bring up a bill that pans this sort of skimming. From the Breitbart story:
Here’s the whole story: In Michigan, many disabled people receive public subsidies, which they can then use to hire caretakers. Very often, those disabled people are cared for by their parents, who use the subsidies to ensure proper care for their children.
Thanks to former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D), back in 2005, the SEIU was able to rope these caretakers into a union in an unpublicized election in which 80 percent of the caretakers didn’t vote. But, you say, these people weren’t government employees. Why would they need a union? The answer is simple: they don’t. The SEIU simply wanted to unionize these folks to allow them to extract forced dues. Those dues are skimmed off of Medicaid payments, and handed over to the union. The result: $29 million poured into the SEIU’s coffers since 2007.[...]
In 2011, the Michigan House voted to stop this scam by stating that receiving government subsidies didn’t make one eligible for a union. That measure has now stalled in the Michigan Senate, thanks to Michigan Republicans. Why don’t they stop the SEIU? Maybe it’s because Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Roger Khan (R-Saginaw) took $5,000 from the SEIU … on the same day the House bill made its way to the Senate.
Given Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s clashes with unions, this particular fact may surprise some readers. However, the publicity generated by Sen. Khan’s stance may force his hand on this subject sooner than expected.
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Comments (72)
Obama_Sham
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:05am“Is SEIU Using Unionization to Extort Medicaid Money From Home Caregivers?”
Seriously… Does this question really need to be asked?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:22amTalk about more Medicare/Medicaid fraud? Now it is just state supported in areas and the unions have done nothing more than get political backing to syphon away funds intended for other use. Thus reducing the care that the needy, poor, and elderly require.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:05amHow else can Democrats get Campaign money?? In the real world, one person does the work of one to three people. Individuals paying dues to the SEIU, ten people do the work of one person. know thats proficiency with a manditory annual raise. GOD BLESS AMERICA and INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:49amSounds like SEIU just violated private citzens rights,and stole federal tax doillars. WHERE’S THE ACLU?
Report Post »The most basic liberty in America is the right to work. SEIU are now charging citizen who don’t want to be part of their orginazation a tax just to be able to have shelter,food,and clothing for them and their family.
Time for a class action multi-billion dollar civil suit,followed by a federal trial for theft,racketeering,and extortion.
turkey13
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 12:52pmWhen I got out of AFLCIO it was like getting a raise. A guy put a pad knife to my throat and I filed a greivance and the Union wouldn’t do it, deeming it horseplay. They didn‘t won’t to lose a due payer. A month later he was fired anyway so they lost 2 union payers. I read a couple of weeks ago where a city in California was raising dues from $92.00 to $126.00. I’m sure if asked they would tell the folks that Obama is in a fight to win and he will need that $$ billion bucks.
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:36pmIts happening here in the land of the unions and the home of the bullied and fleeced until the conservatives get back into the drivers seats.
Report Post »Jan Conroy
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 2:00amThis is far-reaching and has gone on for quite some time. I‘m surprised it took so long for the scam to finally make it to Breitbart’s site because it was an issue here in California some years back.
http://www.seiu.org/2009/05/senseless-budget-cuts-will-gut-californias-cost-efficient-home-care-program-and-force-seniors-and-pe.php
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:44am@CATB
So, did you talk to your Senator? I’m interested, what happened?
Report Post »John_The_Beloved
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 4:45amUnions need to be outlawed and Trade Guilds insituted. Trade Guilds would insure employers get the best of the best for the money. And would also train new blood in the particular field that trade guide is for. For example, trade guild for Computers would train and certify a person in the profession they want to be employed in and help find the job and employer they want to work for. Employers can choose beginner, intermediate, ot expert worker all depending on how much they want to pay that worker.
Report Post »tbolt71
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 4:01amhttp://www.westernjournalism.com/you-may-be-donating-to-the-obama-campaign-and-not-even-know-it/#comment-90651 IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE IN NEW YORK!!!
Report Post »SandyfromChesterfield
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:18amResearch needs to be done on this. I know they are trying to do it in Chicago and Montana and many more states too.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 2:24amMy question would to members of SEIU would be; we all know about the union intent to “redistribute wealth”, so after stealing all of this money, how much has actually been “redistributed” to the membership?
Yeah, I thought so.
When Americans wake up they will see that the unions ARE obunglers “domestic army”. But by then it will be too late. The modern communists will already be in your front door.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:40amRule >
The problem here is some people have been conditioned since early childhood to believe it’s the government’s responsibility to do everything for them.
No wonder the unions feel embolden.
Have a brother who is a UAW member and married to a member of the SEIU.
They deeply believe the GM bailout was necessary.
“Screw the investor, they deserver what they got.”
They will never understand a soviet style government ripped off capital investors.
In addition, over the past 2½ years, they’ve been instructed on how to managed everything available to them, instead of using their own talents to improve their lives.
Report Post »They’ve filed for bankruptcy, use food stamps and even managed to work out something with her SSI while she’s still working, as both proudly pay union dues.
They’ll laugh about it all the way to their graves.
After years of conditioning, that’s their mindset now.
As Karl Marx said … useful idiots
wntsmallgov
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 12:01amWell just one more thing that the we need to keep pushing for 2012. We need to wake people up. I still have a small hope that the people will vote out all the corupt people in their states and at the fed level to install new, younger, and Constitutional minded people.
DHS, EPA, IRS, FBI, NSA, and any other three letter symbol of our government is used to attack and intimidate the American People,. The Next question is why is DHS using a map made by the UN to cut up America into 10 Regions with a Territory (PR) in a leadership Role. This comes right from the DHS website. I know as I post this that the government will do its best to scrub the map but I did confirm with sorces within system that the FEMA camps are here and ready for use. That is why DHS has its own police force. DHS should not have its own police force it was made to be a top level advisory not an active para military unit. Which rasies the next question of Are these units military, police or something far worse, a military contractor above the law?
Report Post »YES DHS I am calling you out.
TDOM
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:55pmThis is BS – how did they manipulate this – somebody is looking the other way
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:52pmLets look at the big pic.
Report Post »How about all gov. workers in the union
Paid by taxpayer
Dues used to support the progressive party (Commies)
About 80% +…The other 20% to progressive Republican (Commies)
How much did they get back from Auto Workers UnionTaxpayer bail out?
And if the bailout was not bad enough.They stole Investors stock
and gave that to the unions too
If your a taxpayer you have gave to much already
Dont buy GM or Dodge ,unless your a progressive (Commie) too……………….
Leopold
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:30pmJust look at the ugly faces on the picture. That tells you all you need to know about people who are in unions. Their faces are full of hatred and anger. Typical mob. It’s funny, they all look the same at every event you see these faces. I am sorry to say but unions are evil. They do not have the best interest of the worker at heart. It is all about power.
Report Post »Onbendedknee
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:27pmMichigan Senator Kahn needs to go to jail. If he is taking money from the union to hold up this bill to end this scam, put him in jail for steeling from the good people of Michigan. Politians line their pockets with our money throughout the world. This must end! I’m getting tired of working almost 60% of the year to line their pockets. I’d like to work 80% for me, 20% for the government and 100% for our savior.
Report Post »PJL
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:26pmThey do the same thing in California…It’s a dirty shame.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:16pmanyone out there have sen kahn’s e-mail or phone number?
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:12pmIndividualism founded America and made it great.
Collectivism has undermined the economies of many many nations.
Wealth is created when there is equal exchange on both sides of the equation.
OWS stands for Obstinate Wealth Stealing and Obfuscating Why we Steal.
They don’t want their “fair” share, they want something they have not labored for.
Again, wealth is created by fair exchange, not confiscating the physical monies from the other side, but providing something of value to a party at liberty to choose for themselves whether to participate.
When all parties are free to choose their economic behavior, the power of the economy is distributed and amplified among EVERYONE.
When central planners DICTATE economic behavior, the energy of the economy is diminished to just the central planning monopoly, which makes for a very very inefficient economic engine.
When the government intrudes into private transactions, the results are inefficient wealth distribution and the spark plug of the economy sputters, stalls, and chokes.
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:05pmSEIU is also riding the backs of home care employees in Illinois, at a time when Illinois coffers are in the red.
Collectivists, you gotta love their faith in monopolies of labor. They hated capitalist monopolies so bad they decided to create labor monopolies to retaliate.
Vanity – there is nothing new under the sun.
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:38pmMichigan Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Roger Khan, R-Saginaw, received $5,000 from the Service Employees International Union on June, 9, 2011. That was the day House Bill 4003 was sent to the Senate, one day after its passage in the House.
According to multiple sources, Sen. Kahn was put in charge of HB 4003 after it was sent to the Senate floor in late 2011. Delaying passage of HB 4003 in the Senate keeps the dues flowing to the SEIU.
Last spring the Legislature de-funded MQC3, but emails show that Kahn worked behind the scenes over the summer to keep the forced unionization structure intact, which, in turn, keep the deductions flowing to SEIU. Those emails were obtained by Mackinac Center for Public Policy through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Report Post »http://www.mackinac.org/15943
I hope airing out this unethical actions of one Senator will help right this terrible wrong.
cassandra
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 1:48amTexanpatriot how right you are it is all out how these so called republicans (RINO”S) are just as bad as the stealing democrates, We must get rid of these crooked polticians Mi. will NEVER recover until we clean our state of the union scourge
Report Post »Cat
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:08amTexan >
Our problems run deeper …
There’s a reason IRS rules are structured the way they are.
The rules are intended to be complicated so the only thing it encourages is implied deceit, resulting in suspicion, distrust, fines, penalties and ultimately, imprisonment and wealth confiscation.
In other words, the government sees all wealth as theirs.
It’s impossible to follow their rules regarding ‘their’ money, so we’re deemed criminals.
The way our society should be structured is the government should be forced to use our money wisely with strict accountability, not the other way round.
The answer?
Report Post »Throw them all out
Good luck
objectivetruth
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:29am@CAT
Report Post »The IRS is involved with collections and distributions of returns.It also handles inquiries and incoming problems,rather effeciently I might add.The TREASURY is the investigator,enforcer and handles complex transactions both concerning legal and illegal ventures.THe CONGRESS holds the purse strings and has final say.Want to hold the right people accountable for acts that amount to rackettering and extortion.Look to congress.
Cat
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:04pmObj >
Wake up
The federal government will have us killed before they give up their weapon, the Internal Revenue Service, and the new HCA increases that power and gets them closer to that end.
Over the years, The fed gov (especially the socialists) has carefully and cleverly manipulated the federal tax laws to impugn citizens who work, and protect those who don’t work.
Most politicians will never give up their precious power unless they’re tossed out on their butts.
Washington DC has more scammers, schemers and crooks then a fleet of pirate ships.
It’s a gang, get it?
The biggest slap in the face of the working people of this nation was when the states ratified the federal income tax.
It is my opinion that was the beginning of the end of our freedom.
The states should have never ratified a federal tax, instead they should have protected their people and told the federal government to take a phuging hike.
This is the United States of America, not the State of America.
It is further my opinion that anyone doing business in this nation can pay a federal tax.
Report Post »It’s called a national sales tax.
The working people have had enough of the federal government ******* all over them.
I hear it every day, day after day.
Taxpayers can’t even follow the behemoth tax code, and when they try, they get screwed.
In addition, CPA’s and accountants are nothing more then enablers.
cassandra
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:27pmGranholm pushed this threw so the unions could do this very thing and was proud of it and now she is on TV on a new show, Michigan tax payers are sick of her and her lies she is a disgrace to MI.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:20pmYes SEIU is stealing money and low and behold two Republican ( RINO’s ) endorse it Sen.Roger Kahn ( Saginaw) and senate majority leader Randy Richardville (Monroe)
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:33amCASSANDRA, Just two more RINO‘s that need to go the way of Maine’s dinosaur RINO Olympia Snow. Find or start a local grass roots organization and put these clowns under a microscope to show the damage they are doing.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:04pmMichigan!?! AAaHHHH! Just take a Regional look at how we voted…. Mittens eked it out via those ‘More enlightened’ in the urban areas……the OTHER 97% of the State was for Santorum. This is a huge clue come Nov. by the way.
Report Post »AM-Saves
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 10:00pmUnions extorting citizens & raiding federal funds??? SAY IT ISN’T SO! Wait… this is business as usual….
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:45pmI expect someone to go to jail for this. If I do not see one of my congress or sentate members doing an investigation that leads to prosecution, I will be voting them ourt of office and I suggest the rest of us do the same.
Report Post »NYheard
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:26pmThis is a disgrace of America. The union should be forced to pay all the money back. This a clear reason why ALL unions should be against the law.
Report Post »I am not elimating collective bargaining. Just unions. All national, state unions outlawed. If a school wants to bargain, then they bargain with the school district, not a union coming in and with thugs bully the school district.
This is low, I know unions are parisites, but they are so low they have to look up to see down.
oldguy49
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:35pmunions are bastions of communist now………..50 years ago a commie couldn’t get in………..they are helping to suck america dry
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:20pmPlease, do NOT FORGET how DAYCARE providers suddenly found themselves members of the UAW! I’m NOT kidding!
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:17pmYoung Mr. Holt
Report Post »Extortion is a crime. A felony. Under federal jurisdiction it is a very serious offense.
If you wrote the headline, I suggest you change it.
If an editor wrote the headline, it appears someone at theblaze doesn’t like you very much.
Captain Crunch
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:29pmMr. Holt said nothing wrong. The union is taking money from people who did not elect to give it to them. They have a choice, either pay the dues or the state takes their payments which helps support the disabled or elderly family member. Sounds like EXTORTION to me!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:30pmIt is extortion .. you libs don’t like the truth much do you? Time for MICHIGAN to stand up to them!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:32pmBTW .. I know a Michigan Senator personally and I am going to contact him about this .. .tonight!
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:33pmShe is a wannabe litigation lawyer…Washington DC and our Universities are full of them.
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 11:15pmAlinksyites, liberals, whatever they call themselves these days in their efforts to hide their true identities, always attack the person, ad hominem. They never debate the facts or the merits of the case, they always go for the personal attack.
That’s why Obama smears his opponents with treacherous lies and deceitful insults. If he were to discuss the facts he wouldn’t have a clue where to begin.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:12pmHeres an Idea Michigan, stop voting for gangsters, or if you have any brains, leave. They will next unionize the unemployed, and take their dues straight out of their unemployment check. Wait until the bums at the off ramps see their union dues, they will have to get a second off ramp to make ends meet.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:37pmI agree .. this was started by GRANHOLM (D) and she was a disaster … but I don‘t understand why the Republican Senate isn’t fixing this .. btw I just posted a link to this on Facebook .. one of the current Michigan Senators is a alumni of mine.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:11pmSold his soul for $5000.00. Sounds like a bribe to me.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 9:18pmHe got ripped, a good soul, hardly used goes for at least $15k, I seen Ted Kennedy’s soul, which was never used, go for $25k at an auction. Mother Theresa’s only went for a nickel, it was worn out.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:42amDARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA, LOL, excellent way to put that. Didn’t Teddy sell his in tiny miniscule sections for a total reaching into the millions?
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