Tax Credit to Build on Member Action Center

State tax credits for auto supplier, a furniture maker and a few high-tech companies is this gem: A $2 million credit to a for-profit associate of the Service Employees International Union to build a Member Action Center.

The shared organization would offer administrative services for the SEIU and other local labor organizations, says the Michigan Economic Development Corp. In spite of cost disadvantages here over rival sites; the project would invest $3 million and create 224 new jobs in Redford community.

That, by sheer chance, is the home of House Speaker Andy Dillon. He's the Democrat almost a one-health-care-plan-for-all-state-employee that parts of the SEIU among the most politically active unions in the nation right now and other public-employee unions steadfastly oppose.

Which means the SEIU's new center and the hundreds of employees theoretically working there would become constituents of a speaker almost the kind of reform that organized labors working the Capitol to kill, not withstanding Michigan's.