SEIU voted out at Michigan hospital, now more dependent on "forced unionization"

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There is good news in Michigan today. The radical SEIU has been voted out and replaced with another union. The Mackinac Center's Michigan Capitol Confidential has the details.

Employees at the Mercy Health Partners Hackley Campus in Muskegon recently voted themselves out of the Service Employees International Union by a 65-9 margin. Three members voted for nonunion status.

The specific branch of the SEIU involved is Healthcare Michigan. The vote was taken last week. The employee group will now transition over to the National Union of Healthcare Workers.

The loss of the Hackley employees, coupled with the loss of the employees at the Luther Manor skilled nursing facility in Saginaw in a September election, means SEIU Healthcare Michigan is even more dependent on dues from a "forced unionization" of home healthcare workers. That forced unionization took place out of the view of public scrutiny under Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

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"I'm thrilled," said Jeff Heyse, staff CT scan technician. "It's one thing to be nonunion and have issues with your employer, but to be in a union with issues against your employer and against the union that's supposed to representing you . . . well, it feels like a weight has been lifted off our shoulders.

Forced unionization, which thanks to a compliant Democratic governor, has allowed SEIU to add 40,0000 new members in Michigan. Those put-upon workers are of course bolstering the far-left union's political war chest.

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