"No court case is planning to stand within the means of home care workers coming collectively to alw...

1. Supreme Court ruling on union dues could cost SEIU
millions in payback
"No court case is planning to stand within the means of home care workers coming collectively to
always be able to use a strong voice permanently work opportunities along with top quality home
care," said SEIU President Mary Kay Henry. "At an occasion when wages remain stagnant as well as
income inequality no more time has sufficient control, becoming any member of together inside a
union will be the sole confirmed method home care workers have got involving improving their
particular lives and the lives of the people that they care for."
Rick Berman, executive director of center for Union Facts, mentioned the particular decision could
spark a quantity of class-action suits in states the spot where the union collected dues from
individuals who didn't willingly join.
"It might be a case exactly where individual folks bring suit for restitution," Berman said. "In
virtually any particular state exactly where dues were collected this way, that would definitely meet
the test for a class action, because these people would be similarly situated."
Even if workers previously classified as public-sector union workers can't claw again dues which
were improperly collected, the ruling will have a large negative effect on SEIU going forward," he
added.
One in the nation's the majority of effective labor unions could face any high priced onslaught
associated with lawsuits seeking tens regarding countless bucks inside dues, following your U.S.
Supreme Court ruled the amount involving money has been collected improperly, legal experts said.
"... they needs to be able to sue with regard to refund of their particular compelled union dues back
again as way since the statute involving limitations will allow."
FoxNews.com first reported throughout April about the Michigan suit, along with Mackinac plaintiff
Patricia Haynes decrying how a union took dues out of entitlement checks the girl as well as her
husband accustomed to care for their a couple of adult children who are afflicted using cerebral
palsy.

2. "The entire point of the selection ended up being that the folks milked through the SEIU weren't
actually public employees and may not necessarily always be made to spend union dues with all,"
stated Hans Bader, senior attorney for your Competitive Enterprise Institute. "So they needs for
you to be in any place to sue regarding refund associated with his or her compelled union dues again
as way since the statute involving limitations will allow.
"Although we won in the Supreme Court, the truth will now carry on inside the lower courts to be
able to get back the quantity associated with money that was illegally taken in the providers,"
Anthony Riedel said.
The National right to always be able to work Foundation, that in addition represented plaintiff
Pamela Harris in Harris v. Quinn, plans to pursue improperly collected dues about behalf associated
with its clients, which could turn out for you to be part of your class action, according to a
spokesman.
Home well being care unions are structured differently from state to state, nevertheless the broad
interpretation involving Monday's ruling is the really fact that residence health treatment workers
cannot be forced to turn out in order to be outlined on unions and can opt out of paying dues even
when the union bargains on his or her behalf. Even though Monday's ruling specifically pertains to
26,000 home wellness care workers inside Illinois, it could ultimately affect a huge assortment of

3. thousands of unionized home health treatment workers in states which includes California,
Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont as well as Connecticut.
It will be unclear exactly just how much the actual SEIU reaped in the stricken dues collection
scheme, in Illinois, the actual union took throughout an estimated $20 million per yr throughout
dues collected at home well being treatment as well as day treatment workers. Numerous of
individuals workers are employed by state contractors and might opt to continue to become
represented from the union.
- Hans Bader, Competitive Enterprise Institute
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01/harris-v-quinn-ruling-could-forc-
-seiu-to-return-funds-from-due-skim-scam/
"They couldn't get me the raise, these
people couldn't acquire me more vacation
moment plus they certainly do absolutely
nothing to boost my children's care,"
Haynes said. "I'd hate for you to say it,
but in my opinion, these folks were
stealing."
In Michigan, your SEIU stored individuals
previously classified as union members in
its rolls unless they will affirmatively
opted out during a one-month annual
period. the legality of this beneath the
actual state's correct to function law is at
dispute, and additionally the Mackinac
center for Public Policy offers launched any class-action suit for you to recoup $3 million worth of
dues collected after 2012 coming from claimants that believed their membership ended if the law
was changed. Monday's selection could prompt these phones go again even further, subject in order
to Michigan's three-year statute associated with limitations.
"Now which there will be a constitutional violation, there will be a possibility involving seeking to
acquire a claim [going back significantly further]," stated Mackinac Vice Presidents regarding Legal
Affairs Patrick Wright.
In the ruling Monday, the actual higher court held in which Services Employees International Union

4. cannot force those who look after household to become union members as well as deduct dues from
your government checks regarding individuals they care for. the practice provides gone upon
pertaining to several years in the handful regarding states, making a lucrative stream regarding
money for your powerful labor organization, which represents a lot more than two million workers as
well as requires inside about $300 million per year.
Monday's Supreme Court ruling about Harris v. Quinn could spur class motion suits to recoup dues,
say experts. (AP)
But if workers cannot be instantly signed up, the actual union will have to actively court these along
with membership will nearly certainly drop. Within Michigan, where the SEIU had dues deducted
immediately through Medicare checks sent in order to people cared pertaining to within their homes
through loved ones, the particular practice ended when lawmakers passed legislation within 2012
rendering it any right-to-work state. Membership among individuals previously classified as
residence well being workers plunged simply by eighty percent simply by a quantity of measures.
Home health aides get turn out for you to be a vital segment regarding SEIU's base, comprising with
regards to twenty % in the union's membership. Within Illinois as well as other states, they were
classified as public-sector workers, compensated out with the proceeds of entitlement checks and so
instantly members in the SEIU. Harris' 25-year-old son, who suffers from the genetic disorder
referred for you to as Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome, receives any month for you to month Medicaid
check associated with approximately $1,300, coming from that regarding $90 had been routinely
deducted for union dues.
Although the actual SEIU failed to address your dues collection issue specifically, officials expressed
confidence that will workers will continue to see worth within collective bargaining.
"I don't know if they're likely to must supply the funds that they collected back, nevertheless they
defintely won't be capable of deduct it that way going forward, and which is a large hit," Berman
said.
"It could possess a big effect," he added.
Paul Kersey, an attorney as well as director associated with labor policy in the Illinois Policy
Institute, that filed an amicus brief within support regarding Harris, stated the actual legal
consortium that will backed your ex can be "definitely taking a look at achievable alternatives going
forward."