As Americans are financially ravaged by inflation and low wages, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill last week to ensure that the state gets a cut of family caregiver salaries, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Democrat-controlled Michigan legislature passed Senate Bills 790 and 791 earlier this month, creating a designation that will allow unions to skim dues from Medicaid reimbursements for in-home care for seniors and the disabled.

In short, the legislation will reclassify normal home caregivers as public state employees, but only in a limited sense, for the purposes of unions and union dues. The bill’s passage means that people who administer medication or food to their elderly relatives on Medicaid will be pressured to join the Service Employees International Union.

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In order to increase SEIU enrollment, employees will be required by the new law to attend “orientation” training sessions, wherein they will receive caretaker training and hear a 30-minute SEIU pitch.

Republicans in the state legislature opposed the latter provision, and tried to block it, but were overruled by the Democratic majority.

Those employees–if enough sign up for union membership–will owe the SEIU 2.75% of their annual pay, which is currently at a rate of $13.53 per hour. According to the report, this could lead to an annual redistribution from workers to the union of up to $13 million.

Unfortunately for family caregivers, the state is returning to a policy that was in place under former Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who aided the SEIU in the acquisition of approximately $34 million over the course of the years 2006 to 2012.

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Making matters worse, the SEIU is also one of the Democratic Party’s largest financial contributors. The group has reportedly given over $200 million to the Harris-Walz campaign and other left-wing candidates in this election cycle alone, meaning that the Democrats and SEIU have a symbiotic relationship, each giving money to the other in turn.

Patrick Wright of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, in response, pointed out that the legislature could simply legislate a pay raise rather than pushing for union membership, which may actually decrease their real wages due to union dues.

“The Legislature right now, without a union, can increase these people’s pay,” he said.