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Right to Work Officer: TV Ad Will Expose U.S. Senate Candidates' Views On Forced Unionism
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Right to Work Officer: TV Ad Will Expose U.S. Senate Candidates' Views On Forced Unionism
Savannah, GA -- National Right to Work Committee® Director of Telecommunications Sean Gerety paid a visit to Savannah 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 Georgia next week.
Mr. Gerety spoke at the Radisson Hotel this morning.
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.
Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 1996, incumbent Senator Max Cleland has refused to support the National Right to Work Act.
During that time, however, Senator Cleland has cosponsored and voted for forced-unionism legislation, including a bill to impose union-monopoly bargaining on all the nation’s police and firefighters.
“It’s really no surprise that Senator Cleland has been one of the Senate’s biggest proponents of forced-unionism legislation,” said Mr. Gerety.
“After all, he’s raked in more than $369,000 in Organized Labor PAC contributions during this election alone.
“What’s more, he 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 Cleland should stop worrying about the union-boss elite who finance his campaigns and start worrying about the nearly eight out of ten Georgians who oppose forced unionism.”
Senator Cleland’s challenger in the Senate race, Congressman Saxby Chambliss, 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 Georgia 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.