And you don't think Unions are evil?

I've only ever belonged to a Union once, and it wasn't of my choosing. 20 years ago I was a secretary at a defense firm in MPLS, MN. The secretaries had a Union. I did not want to join the Union - I mean, come on, a Union for secretaries? - but if I didn't join, they would still take 60% of their dues out of my paycheck. So what can I say - I joined. Why let them take my money and get nothing for it? (Not that they ever did anything for the money - what could they do for secretaries, for God's sake?)

Something similar is happening to some poor folks in Michigan - only it's much, mich worse. The people involved don't even work for anybody - and the Union is still taking $30 out of their pockets every month!!!

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybens...ed_non-members
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.

“We're not even home health care workers. We're just parents taking care of our kids,” Robert Haynes, a retired Detroit police officer, told the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. “Our daughter is 34 and our son is 30. They have cerebral palsy. They are basically like 6-month-olds in adult bodies. They need to be fed and they wear diapers. We could sure use that $30 a month that's being sent to the union.”

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 email obtained 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.

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