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Right to Work Officer: TV Ad Will Expose U.S. Senate Candidates' Views On Forced Unionism
FOR RELEASE: October 8, 2002
Davenport, IA -- National Right to Work Committee® Director of Communications Kirsten Andersen paid a visit to the Quad Cities today to unveil a television ad campaign produced by the 2.2 million-member national grassroots organization that will begin airing in media markets throughout Iowa next week.
Ms. Andersen spoke at the Holiday Inn this afternoon.
The National Right to Work Committee® is running the ad as part of a nationwide media campaign to build Congressional support for the National Right to Work Act (S. 873/H.R. 1109).
The National Right to Work Act would end forced-unionism nationwide by removing the provision in federal law that authorizes union officials to confiscate union dues from workers as a condition of employment.
When the Right to Work bill was last debated in the U.S. Senate in 1996, Incumbent Senator Tom Harkin voted to kill the legislation.
Since then, Senator Harkin has cosponsored and voted for several pieces of forced-unionism legislation, including a bill to impose union-monopoly bargaining and forced-union dues on all the nation’s police and firefighters.
“It’s really no surprise that Senator Harkin has been one of the Senate’s biggest proponents of forced-dues legislation,” said Ms. Andersen.
“After all, he’s raked in more than $300,000 in Organized Labor PAC contributions during this election alone, in addition to the millions he has collected over the course of his career,” Ms. Andersen continued.
“Senator Harkin should stop worrying about the union-boss elite who finance his campaigns and start worrying about the nearly eight out of ten Iowans who oppose forced unionism.”
Senator Harkin’s challenger in the Senate race, Congressman Greg Ganske of Iowa’s 4th District, is a current House cosponsor of the National Right to Work Act and an opponent of forced unionism.
Nationwide polls show Americans oppose forced union affiliation by a nearly four-to-one margin.
Because of the supremacy of federal law, even in Iowa and other states that have enacted Right to Work laws, hundreds of thousands of employees are forced to support unions financially in order to secure and maintain employment.
Please call Doug Stafford at (703) 321-9820 for more information.