SPRINGFIELD, Va. -- The Foundation’s Legal Information Department is launching an extensive radio, television, and newspaper campaign this summer to focus national media attention on Big Labor’s use of forced union dues for politics during the 2000 elections.

“We will focus the white-hot glare of media attention on the true source of Big Labor’s political power,” said Foundation Director of Legal Information Randy Wanke.

Big Labor’s political spending to break all records

During the last election, Big Labor spent an estimated $500 million to elect politicians who can be counted on to support the union bosses’ far-left agenda. Most of that money was collected from more than 12 million American employees who are forced to pay union dues as a condition of employment.

During this election, however, the AFL-CIO brass have raised the stakes. Top union operatives are publicly bragging about their intention to double previous expenditures for an all-out partisan political assault. According to the Daily Labor Report, AFL-CIO czar John Sweeney boasted that his organization will conduct “the broadest and most intensive program we have ever conducted” on behalf of Big Labor-endorsed candidates. Big Labor’s cash will be plowed into political organizing and district-by-district mobilization as well as high-profile television and radio attack ads.

Campaign to raise national media awareness

As a part of the Foundation’s media campaign, Foundation Vice President Stefan Gleason and Director of Legal Information Randy Wanke will appear on national radio talk shows during both the Republican and Democrat national conventions this summer to blow the lid off Big Labor’s political schemes.

The Legal Information Department will also provide the nation’s newspapers as well as television and radio stations with information about workers who have been victimized by Big Labor’s reign of terror.