Geri Milliron wasn't going to be bullied by the Service Employees International Union.
She's spent her life taking care of her son, Ronnie, and knew that the union could provide nothing to make his life better. So when she noticed that union dues were being deducted from the Medicaid dollars the family was getting to take care of their quadriplegic son, she took action.
And won.
Unlike the tens of thousands of others in Michigan who have been forced into the unionization scheme orchestrated by the SEIU when Jennifer Granholm was governor, Milliron got out.
“I’m not afraid to speak out and I did,” she said. “The SEIU never did anything for us and they can’t help any parents who take care of their kids. I’m not a union member, I’m a mother and I’m on the clock 24/7.”
The Macomb Township mom said she was forced into the SEIU in 2006 and for two years had about $20 a month taken from her family by the union. She said she never got a ballot to vote for unionization and never got any information from the SEIU after the mail-in election.
“But I saw that some union was taking money from us and I started asking questions,” she said.
She fought back by going to Lansing to get answers and by getting her state representative to ask questions. She demanded that money not be taken and the union backed down, she said.
“I got paid back with two checks from them and never heard from them again,” she said. “They don’t take money from us anymore, but I’m afraid they’re going to get me back with Proposal 4.”
The SEIU has taken more than $32 million from people like the Millirons and it wants to lock its unionization scheme into the state constitution with Proposal 4.
Read more: http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/17885
She's spent her life taking care of her son, Ronnie, and knew that the union could provide nothing to make his life better. So when she noticed that union dues were being deducted from the Medicaid dollars the family was getting to take care of their quadriplegic son, she took action.
And won.
Unlike the tens of thousands of others in Michigan who have been forced into the unionization scheme orchestrated by the SEIU when Jennifer Granholm was governor, Milliron got out.
“I’m not afraid to speak out and I did,” she said. “The SEIU never did anything for us and they can’t help any parents who take care of their kids. I’m not a union member, I’m a mother and I’m on the clock 24/7.”
The Macomb Township mom said she was forced into the SEIU in 2006 and for two years had about $20 a month taken from her family by the union. She said she never got a ballot to vote for unionization and never got any information from the SEIU after the mail-in election.
“But I saw that some union was taking money from us and I started asking questions,” she said.
She fought back by going to Lansing to get answers and by getting her state representative to ask questions. She demanded that money not be taken and the union backed down, she said.
“I got paid back with two checks from them and never heard from them again,” she said. “They don’t take money from us anymore, but I’m afraid they’re going to get me back with Proposal 4.”
The SEIU has taken more than $32 million from people like the Millirons and it wants to lock its unionization scheme into the state constitution with Proposal 4.
Read more: http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/17885
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