Not only has the Michigan Education Association been shady with their handling of right-to-work opt out procedures, they have been less than transparent on their financial disclosures to the federal government.
MEA Executive Director Gretchen Dziadosz
The LM-2 form that unions must file has multiple sections with various categories to report all receipts and expenditures. One such category is “All Other Receipts.” This is for income that was received in quantities less than $5,000 and don’t fit into any other category on the form. Most unions report less than one percent of their income on this line – most unions except the MEA. On their 2014 report, MEA categorized $30 million, 30% of their income, under “All Other Receipts.” In order for this to make sense legally, the union would have had to receive, for example, 7,667 payments of $4,999 in a year’s time.
Where did this money really come from? When MEA Executive Director Gretchen Dziadosz was posed this same question her response was, “I do not have personal knowledge of that.” Of course not.
