Right to work victories

From The National Right To Work Committee:

The headlines have been stunning.

***SEIU Hit With Second-Biggest Campaign Finance Fine in Michigan History

***Wisconsin AFL-CIO Failed to Disclose Special Election Spending

***Big Labor, ‘Looking for Revenge,’ Expects to Dump $300 Million into 2014 Elections
And even so, they’ve barely scratched the surface of Big Labor’s forced-dues-funded election-year schemes.

Any day now, another headline may soon be spreading from coast to coast:

***Right to Work for All Civil Servants, Supreme Court Holds
The High Court’s term wraps up later this month, so a ruling in your National Right to Work Foundation’s Harris v. Quinn case is imminent.

A major Right to Work victory could “demolish a major source of funding and support for the Democratic Party,” one Big Labor apologist recently wrote.

But it’s a dangerous game to predict how the frequently cautious Supreme Court will rule.

That’s why Foundation staff attorneys are prepared to keep up the fight, especially as more and more stories come out this year exposing Big Labor’s corruption of our politics.

You see, during the last major election cycle, a Wall Street Journal report showed that, “the unions’ reports to the Labor Department capture an additional $3.3 billion that unions spent” on politics between 2005 and 2011 beyond their self-reported numbers.

And those staggering figures don’t even include Big Labor’s enormous local and regional political expenditures.

The fact is, as another election season shifts into high gear, Big Labor is once again pulling out all the stops.

Your help is vital right now to fight back against Big Labor’s multi-billion-dollar forced-dues political activism.

And Foundation attorneys tell me daily about ever more brazen examples of union boss forced-unionism misconduct.

Outraged workers are literally flooding our phone and e-mail systems with complaints of union boss abuse and requests for help.

With the election just around the corner, time is short.

If you and I don’t act, Big Labor will have spent all the workers’ money on politics before these workers can force them to give it back.

So it’s vital your Foundation be able to respond immediately to the flood of worker complaints with lawsuits, NLRB charges, Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaints, exposure in the media . . .

. . . Whatever it takes.

That’s why I am asking you to make a special contribution today to help the National Right to Work Foundation fight back.

With your help, the Foundation will be able to dramatically step up efforts to use legal action to block Big Labor’s illegal forced-dues-funded political electioneering.

A top Foundation priority for the rest of the year is to file new legal actions to force union officials to comply with prohibitions on collecting and using forced dues for politics.

You see, Big Labor is striving to undo recent Right to Work gains -- especially the passage of Right to Work Laws in Indiana and Michigan, as well as Wisconsin’s government-sector monopoly bargaining reforms.

That’s why in addition to spending hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars on U.S. Senate races, they’re scheming to take over state legislatures in all three states and governors’ mansions in both Michigan and Wisconsin.

Right to Work victories in Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin have begun to put a crimp in the forced-dues-to-politics pipeline.

But with billions of dollars at stake, the union bosses will stop at nothing to open the spigots all the way.

And they’ll have help.

As you know, union officials still have unprecedented access to a Big Labor-friendly White House and control of the U.S. Senate.

The fact is, President Barack Obama literally let top AFL-CIO union boss Richard Trumka handpick the new members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

That’s just one in a series of behind-the-scenes maneuvers the Obama Administration has made to reward its Big Labor benefactors, who unleashed another billion-dollar spending blitz two years ago to re-elect Barack Obama and lock in its majority in the U.S. Senate.

And even before that election was over, they were already scheming for 2014.

I hope you understand the real threat opponents of forced unionism face this year. I’m sure you must be as concerned as I am about the prospect of Big Labor’s forced-dues political machine targeting pro-Right to Work politicians in November.

With your help, the Foundation will:

***Prosecute cases against union officials who illegally seize and spend forced-dues money to get their cronies elected to positions of power.

***Protect popular state Right to Work laws that make union affiliation voluntary in 24 states. Union bosses are mounting end-runs around these laws and continuing to file nuisance lawsuits to block their implementation.

***Expose Big Labor’s misdeeds. Every time Foundation attorneys file charges against union bosses for breaking the law, misusing union dues or instigating violence against workers, the Foundation hammers the union bosses in the press for these ugly abuses.

The Foundation has been a much-needed watchdog against the union bosses countless times, including our recent victory for a New York teacher whose religious objection to union membership had been met with years of delay and law-breaking by local union officials.

In fact, no other nationwide organization is poised to stop Big Labor’s illegal use of workers’ forced-dues cash to advance its political agenda.

***It was our FEC complaint that led to a massive fine – the third largest in FEC history – against a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) front group.

***It was National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys who won the Knox case in 2012, when the U.S. Supreme Court held that union bosses must obtain the affirmative consent of non member public-employees before collecting fees for an “emergency” political slush fund in an election year.

***And Foundation attorneys were back at the High Court earlier this year and a ruling is imminent in our Harris v. Quinn case that could expand on that victory and stop the collection of all forced union fees from public employees.

Time and time again, the Foundation has been on the front lines against Big Labor’s schemes to buy elections with money seized from unwilling workers.

That’s why it’s vital you help the Foundation today. Would you take a moment right now to help with a timely contribution of $50?

Please consider making a gift that generous. But if $50 is more than you can spare today, then I hope you’ll consider a gift of at least $35 or $15.

With your help, Foundation attorneys will be fighting to block Big Labor’s illegal use of forced dues for politics wherever we find it.

Whether you can afford to give $50 or $35, or if for you a contribution of $15 is a sacrifice, the most important thing is to act today.

With so many challenges ahead of us, it is vital that we act immediately to stop Big Labor illegality.

Please make a generous, tax-deductible gift today.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

P.S. With union bosses mounting their largest forced-dues political effort in history, it’s vital the Foundation fight back with lawsuits, NLRB charges, FEC complaints, exposure in the media . . . on every possible front.

And with the elections right around the corner, you and I must act TODAY.

So please respond today with a generous, tax-deductible gift of $50, $35, $15 or whatever you can afford.