 more union news one to the good one to the bad recently i railed against unions voting to not work preferring standing around with signs over creating products and services that could help the economy today my plan is to rail against people in unions who didn t choose to be in union s the ldquo take rdquo so far from michigan s forced unionization of supposed home health care workers for the service employees international union is 28 million that tally is going up on a monthly basis yes the seiu obama s personal campaign funding mechanism along with wall street firms take that occupy wall street gets dollars from day care works the mackinac center for public policy provides a little background on forced unionization issue the ldquo forced unionization rdquo began when jennifer granholm was governor it involved the creation of the michigan quality community care council which was used as a sham employer for the socalled home health care workers the term ldquo home health care workers rdquo is in many cases misplaced many of those who were shanghaied into the union roughly six years ago are actually parents or other relatives who take care of developmentally disabled adults hmm a scheme to funnel money to unions was done under a democrat how unexpected what isn t expected though is how long legislation to stop future occurrences of this is taking to get through the capitol the bill house bill 4003 introduced by dewitt s paul opsommer by the way has passed in the house but it is moving through the senate more slowly however  mcpp reports that it has moved out of committee and is now before the full senate i now have the tune i m just a bill yes i m only a bill from schoolhouse rock going through my head so more damage from the granholm years is hopefully about to be undone in other union news in the peoples republic of ann arbor we have research assistants who apparently never want to leave school and are thus attempting to form a union of their own  and they re getting closer a group of university of michigan graduate student research assistants now must persuade a judge to allow them to form a union the michigan employment relations commission on a 21 margin voted this morning to send the question to an administrative law judge for a hearing if the students win there they will be allowed to have an election it was two granholm appointees against one snyder appointee by the way look u of m students if you want to give money to democrats you can just send them money you don t have to form a union to collect dues and then send them their cash really just cut out the middle man  