{"id":1635,"date":"2006-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"employee-advocate-reacts-to-afl-cio-s-pledge-to-spend-unprecedented-sum-on-politics-in-2006","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/employee-advocate-reacts-to-afl-cio-s-pledge-to-spend-unprecedented-sum-on-politics-in-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Advocate Reacts to AFL-CIO\u2019s Pledge to Spend \u201cUnprecedented\u201d Sum on Politics in 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>San Diego, CA (February 28, 2006)<\/strong> \u2013 The following is a statement of Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, in response to AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney\u2019s announcement that the labor conglomerate will spend an \u201cunprecedented\u201d $40 million to influence the 2006 mid-term elections. \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing to learn that the AFL-CIO\u2019s plan for 2006 is \u2018more of the same.\u2019 Rather than getting workers to join unions voluntarily, union officials have stepped up their assault on employees\u2019 legal rights to say \u2018no\u2019 to unionization. \u201cThe AFL-CIO\u2019s top priority appears to be electing politicians who pledge support for granting union organizers sweeping new coercive privileges under federal law\u2013 namely the Kennedy-Miller bill. \u201cAt the same time, the AFL-CIO elite is expected to announce later this week that it will divert significant additional resources into corporate campaigns and other Top Down organizing methods. These abusive tactics involve attacking companies until they agree to hand over their employees into forced unionism through the so-called \u201ccard check\u201d method rather than utilizing the traditional, less-abusive election procedure. \u201cRather than working to expand their political clout and coercive organizing, union officials should instead clean up the corruption, shun the radical political activism, and turn their energy to improving the product they\u2019re attempting to sell to America\u2019s hardworking men and women.\u201d To schedule an interview with a Right to Work spokesperson, call Justin Hakes at 703-770-3317.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego, CA (February 28, 2006) \u2013 The following is a statement of Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, in response to AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney\u2019s announcement that the labor conglomerate will spend an \u201cunprecedented\u201d $40 million to influence the 2006 mid-term elections. \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing to learn that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1635","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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