**Springfield, VA (August 24, 2006)** \u2013 Experts from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation will be available for comment and interviews on and around Labor Day about workers\u2019 rights, union political activities leading up to midterm elections, union organizing, corruption, violence, and other issues relating to organized labor in America. The Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization that provides free legal aid to victims of compulsory unionism abuse, and the only national group of this kind.<\/p>\n
Foundation experts have been interviewed on national television and radio programs, including The O\u2019Reilly Factor, Special Report with Brit Hume, CNBC\u2019s Closing Bell, and on CNN. Their writings frequently appear in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, Investor\u2019s Business Daily, and numerous other publications. They are prepared to comment on or debate any issues related to the following: <\/p>\n
\u2022\tBig Labor\u2019s political efforts to install a majority in Congress sympathetic to expanding union special privileges during the 2006 mid-term election cycle;<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHow the Bush-appointed National Labor Relations Board has delayed rulings on many of the most cutting-edge cases in American labor law \u2013 allowing union officials to step up their aggressive organizing tactics which often violate workers\u2019 rights;<\/p>\n
\u2022\tOrganized labor\u2019s war on the secret ballot election process for workers choosing whether to unionize, increasing use of coercive \u201ccard check\u201d organizing campaigns against workers, and \u201ccorporate campaigns\u201d to embarrass and bully nonunion companies;<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHow Big Labor\u2019s political agenda is often out of step with many rank-and-file workers\u2019 beliefs;<\/p>\n
\u2022\tThe growing support for job-producing Right to Work laws that make union membership and dues payment strictly voluntary;<\/p>\n
\u2022\tExamples of workers\u2019 rights abuse resulting from forced union dues, union violence, violations of religious freedom, and other infringements of employees\u2019 individual rights;<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHow teacher union officials have contributed to a decline in public education while blocking efforts at reform.<\/p>\n