The Service Employees International Union is not a charity.
According to its own website, the SEIU is an employee union that
exists to win “better wages, health care and more secure jobs”
for their members.  So why do proponents of Proposal 4 maintain
that the SEIU is spending millions to simply “ensure safe home
care”? And why is the union only pushing through this change to
the Michigan Constitution now, when a program that guarantees
this has been in existence since for over 30 years?  Proposal 4
is about taking money from disabled Michigan residents and
putting it in union coffers. This has netted the SEIU more than
$32 million since 2006.  According to the latest campaign
finance report, the group pushing Proposal 4 — Citizens For
Affordable Quality Home Care — has raised $9 million so far, all
of it from the group Home Care First Inc. The vast majority of
the money for Home Care First comes from the SEIU.  According to
the same report, there has been almost no money spent opposing
Proposal 4.  The issue