Storm Clouds Assemble Over Nation’S Largest Union

by Richard McCarty: The nation’s largest spousal human relationship had a run of skillful luck during the Obama years, only the concluding brace of years withdraw maintain been petroleum for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). For those non familiar alongside the union, SEIU claims 2 ane 1000 m members as well as is composed of janitors, safety guards, tike assist workers, wellness assist workers, autobus drivers, social workers, grad students, as well as adjunct professors, amid others.

During the 2016 election, SEIU vainly spent millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton. Weeks later Clinton lost, SEIU Texas declared bankruptcy, as well as SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry announced the spousal human relationship must conception for a 30 per centum cut inwards SEIU International’s budget past times the start of this year.
SEIU Texas filed for bankruptcy because it had lost a lawsuit as well as been ordered to pay $7.8 million to Professional Janitorial Services. The spousal human relationship had been angry that the company’s president refused to waive a secret-ballot unionization election thence it had unfairly as well as maliciously attacked the companionship causing it to lose clients. Last summer, SEIU International bailed out SEIU Texas as well as confidentially settled the case.

Elsewhere, due to allegations of suspended over the past times year. Of these half dozen employees, 2 were SEIU executive vice presidents, about other was the national organizing director for SEIU’s Fight for $15 campaign, as well as 2 to a greater extent than were leaders of Fight for $15 campaigns inwards Chicago as well as Detroit.

In June, the Supreme Court handed downward its conclusion inwards the Janus case. In its ruling, the Supreme Court constitute that it is a violation of authorities workers’ First Amendment rights to forcefulness them to pay fees to a union. The ruling also prohibits the deduction of spousal human relationship fees from the paychecks of authorities workers without their limited consent. Unfortunately for SEIU, over half of its members travel for the authorities thence SEIU could lose a lot of members — as well as coin — equally a termination of the decision.

In 2014, the National Right to Work Foundation (NRTWF) filed a class-action lawsuit against SEIU over the union’s burdensome requirements to opt-out of paying spousal human relationship fees. The adapt was filed on behalf of tens of thousands of electrical flow as well as old California state employees. SEIU won the showtime circular inwards federal district court. Undeterred past times the loss, NRTWF filed an appeal alongside the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In the wake of the Janus decision, NRTWF submitted a novel filing inwards the case. If the plaintiffs win, SEIU could withdraw maintain to render over $100 million inwards fees collected over the past times several years from workers who had non consented to paying the fees.

Last month, opposes the union’s policy views. As business office of the agreement, SEIU was to return near $3,000 to her. This could hold out the showtime of many such cases.

Finally, the Centers for Medicare as well as Medicaid Services withdraw maintain proposed rolling back an Obama era rule that allowed spousal human relationship dues to hold out deducted from Medicaid checks sent to domicile healthcare providers. Many of these providers assist for relatives or friends as well as did non wishing to bring together SEIU. If the proposed rule takes effect, it could seek out costly to the union: SEIU has been skimming dues off of Medicaid checks for years as well as collects an estimated $200 ane 1000 m a year through this scheme.

Although it is unknown what the precise send on of these setbacks volition be, it seems clear that SEIU volition endure about membership as well as fiscal losses. But don’t experience likewise bad for SEIU. Many of its problems are of its ain making. Had it non forced workers to pay spousal human relationship fees as well as and thence used these workers’ coin to pursue a, partisan, left-wing agenda, it mightiness withdraw maintain avoided many of these problems.
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Richard McCarty is the Director of Research at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.

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