Michigan Madness - Must Join Union If You Have A Disabled Child

[Revoltingest]

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.

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Unions still have a whole lotta power here, even after driving away many of their hosts.

 

[gnomon]

This is an absurd case and I can't believe the State allows these practices to go on.

What is interesting is that the phrase money grubbing corporation applies to this union but you don't often hear it put that way.

 

[Revoltingest]

The state doesn't merely allow it...the state is the direct cause.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Who passes these laws.?
Who elects them into office.?
Who are the morons the elected or the electorate.?

 

[Awoon]

Who passes these laws.?
Who elects them into office.?
Who are the morons the elected or the electorate.?

Some non existing "you."

 

[Revoltingest]

Who passes these laws.?
Who elects them into office.?
Who are the morons the elected or the electorate.?

We.....er, they.....are the morons who elected them.
My fellow voters & I don't all share the same values.

It's interesting how definitions are manipulated & transmogrified to become some other than what one expects.
To receive a benefit from the state now makes one an "employee" of the state for some purposes.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

We.....er, they.....are the morons who elected them.
My fellow voters & I don't all share the same values.

It's interesting how definitions are manipulated & transmogrified to become some other than what one expects.
To receive a benefit from the state now makes one an "employee" of the state for some purposes.

That is the logic of the "Work House" but we are no longer in the 19th century. Perhaps there is an obsolete law in there somewhere, that they are hanging their coat on.

 

[Revoltingest]

That is the logic of the "Work House" but we are no longer in the 19th century. Perhaps there is an obsolete law in there somewhere, that they are hanging their coat on.

Tis from an ancient time which we call The Granholmozoic Period....2006 CE.
(We were afflicted with a governor from Canuckistan. Also, Democratasauruses & Unionasauruses were the top predators at the time.)

 

[dust1n]

Tis from an ancient time which we call The Granholmozoic Period....2006 CE.
(We were afflicted with a governor from Canuckistan. Also, Democratasauruses & Unionasauruses were the top predators at the time.)

Looks like two republicans were behind most of the efforts!

"Wright was referring to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Mackinac Center that point to behind-the-scenes legislative efforts to keep the council operating by other means. Among the documents, emails indicate that Sen. Roger Kahn, R-Saginaw Twp., was particularly focused on maintaining MQCCC.

The MQCCC was created in 2005 through an interlocal agreement between the Michigan Department of Community Health and the Tri-County Aging Consortium. The council kept a registry of home care providers, but its main function was to be the so-called government “employer” for some 45,000 private home care aides. Through this arrangement, these independent contractors were compelled to become dues-paying members of SEIU Healthcare Michigan. The union has had a collective bargaining agreement with the MQCCC since 2006, collecting $6 million in annual dues from Medicaid subsidies paid to the home care providers. The council effectively runs the program for SEIU and passes the union dues from the state to the union.


The Mackinac Center recently learned from the council’s executive director that even though the MQCCC would no longer be funded this year and would soon close its doors, MQCCC officials believed the collective bargaining agreement would remain “in force between us and the union.” A copy of the agreement shows a Nov. 15, 2012, expiration date.



That prompted a Mackinac Center inquiry into what was happening behind the scenes that would keep a defunded government entity operating.


Among documents obtained from the Michigan Department of Community Health were more than three dozen emails from between April 5 and Sept. 13 discussing ways to keep the agency afloat. The biggest champion of creative financing for the council appeared to be Sen. Kahn. According to the documents attained by the Mackinac Center, Sen. Kahn began by proposing an above-the-board supplemental appropriation for the MQCCC. When this was rejected by the House, he suggested hiding the funding by avoiding an explicit designation identifying what it was for or putting the amount into another budget entirely. When those attempts failed, Sen. Kahn proposed taking five cents per hour from each health care provider to allow the continued existence of the faux employer, which would allow the union to keep collecting millions of dollars in annual dues.


The first indication of Sen. Kahn’s efforts came in a May 19 email from MDCH Deputy Director Nick Lyon to Nancy Vreibel, a staff member in Sen. Kahn’s office, discussing budget cuts to MDCH. Lyon wrote: “I also couldn’t work money back in for MQCCC; (Kahn) had asked about that.”


In July, an email from MDCH Director Olga Dazzo to several members of her staff and members of the Snyder administration revealed that Sen. Kahn and Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, R-Monroe, hoped to re-establish a cash flow to the MQCCC.


“Senators Richardville and Kahn believe there is merit in funding MQC3,” Dazzo wrote. “Senator Kahn was hoping to restore these dollars in the budget but apparently did not have support from the House or Senate MDCH budget chairs.”"

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