Somehow, the Freedom Foundation manages to keep finding people who don’t exist.

To hear SEIU tell it, the unions perform an invaluable service for public employees and are beloved by all their members. The Freedom Foundation, they’ll tell you, is just trying to stir up trouble and win points with its corporate donors by filing frivolous lawsuits.

Of course, if that were entirely true, we wouldn’t be beating the unions like a drum in court. Nor does it explain why so many SEIU-represented home healthcare providers are opting out of the union every day and eager to have the Freedom Foundation tell their story to others in the same position.

The latest of these is Maria Bosworth, a Yakima independent provider forced until two months ago to pay tribute to SEIU 925 simply because she accepted compensation from Medicaid to care for her husband, who was injured while serving in Iraq eight years ago.

She now receives no compensation for her efforts.

“SEIU never did anything to help me do my job,” says in a newly released Freedom Foundation-produced television spot, “except take my money and use it for agendas I disagreed with.”

The commercials, which will be broadcast this month in the Yakima market, tell Bosworth’s story and encourage other independent providers (IPs) to opt out as she did.

“I don’t want to pay for something that takes rights away from myself because of a union that forces me to pay those dues,” she says.