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Right to Work Officer: TV Ad Will Expose U.S. Senate Candidates' Views On Forced Unionism
FOR RELEASE: December 2, 2002
Baton Rouge, LA -- National Right to Work Committee® spokesman Dennis Fusaro paid a visit to Baton Rouge today to unveil a television ad campaign produced by the 2.2 million-member national grassroots organization that will air in media markets throughout Louisiana this week.
Mr. Fusaro spoke at the Radisson Baton Rouge this afternoon.
The National Right to Work Committee® is running the ad as the last stage of a nationwide election-year 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.
Since her election to the U.S. Senate in 1996, incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu has refused to support the National Right to Work Act.
During that time, however, Senator Landrieu has cosponsored and voted for forced-unionism legislation, including a bill to impose union-monopoly bargaining on all the nation’s police and firefighters.
She also voted with hard-line labor activists in the Senate to block passage of President Bush’s Homeland Security Bill unless union bosses were granted power over national security employees.
“It’s really no surprise that Senator Landrieu has been one of the Senate’s biggest proponents of forced-unionism legislation,” said Mr. Fusaro.
“After all, she raked in more than $250,000 in Organized Labor PAC contributions before the November 5 elections, and has received even more during the run-off.”
“What’s more, she has also gratefully accepted ‘in-kind’ support from union bosses in the form of phone banks, get-out-the-vote drives, and forced-dues-paid-for campaign ‘volunteers.’”
“Senator Landrieu should stop worrying about the union-boss elite who finance her campaigns and start worrying about the nearly eight out of ten Louisianans who oppose forced unionism.”
Senator Landrieu’s challenger in the run-off, Republican Suzanne Haik Terrell, is 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 Louisiana 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 Kirsten Andersen at (703) 321-9820 for more information.