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Lansing, MI (February 17, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal aid from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, a group of Michigan home-based day-care providers have filed a class-action federal lawsuit against government union officials and Governor Granholm’s Administration for illegally forcing them to pay union dues.\n<\/p>\n
\nCarrie Schlaud and Diana Orr of Lapeer County, Edward and Nora Gross of Ingham County, and Peggy Mashke of Ogemaw County — with assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation — filed the federal suit today on behalf of all of Michigan\u2019s 40,000 home-care providers.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe suit challenges a scheme created by Granholm, Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) officials, and a union front group called \u00abChild Care Providers Together Michigan\u00bb (CCPTM) to designate home-care providers who accept state assistance as \u00abstate employees\u00bb and foist CCPTM union political \u00abrepresentation\u00bb on them. CCPTM is an operation run by the United Autoworker (UAW) and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) unions.\n<\/p>\n
\nUnder Granholm\u2019s direction, DHS officials created the \u00abMichigan Home Based Child Care Council\u00bb to provide the union bosses with an entity to deal with as the \u00abmanagement\u00bb of the home child-care providers. Even though only 15 percent of the 40,000 day-care providers voted in the union certification election, the CCPTM union hierarchy was granted monopoly bargaining privileges and political representation of all the home-care providers.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe DHS now siphons union dues from the providers’ paychecks and forwards the money into the union bosses’ bank accounts. Recent media reports suggest that in exchange for their special government-granted privileges to force Michigan’s home-care providers under union monopoly control, the union bosses benefiting from this scheme contribute to various pro-compulsory unionism politicians in Michigan, including Governor Granholm.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe class-action suit challenges the forced-unionism scheme on the grounds that it violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of free political expression and association.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u00abThis scheme is nothing more than pure political payback; union bosses funnel millions of dollars to the campaigns of pro-forced unionism politicians, and the same politicians are forcing home-care providers to pay tens of millions of dollars into union boss coffers,\u00bb said Patrick Semmens, Legal Information Director of the National Right to Work Foundation.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe federal lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division.\n<\/p>\n
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Lansing, MI (February 17, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal aid from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, a group of Michigan home-based day-care providers have filed a class-action federal lawsuit against government union officials and Governor Granholm’s Administration for illegally forcing them to pay union dues.\n<\/p>\n
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