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Baton Rouge, LA Press Conference Advisory
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Baton Rouge, LA Press Conference Advisory
Dear Editor:
On Monday, December 2, Dennis Fusaro, spokesman for the 2.2 million-member National Right to Work Committee®, will hold a press conference in Baton Rouge to announce a TV ad campaign highlighting the issue of compulsory unionism in Louisiana’s run-off election for U.S. Senate.
The 4:00 PM press conference will take place at the Radisson Baton Rouge, 4728 Constitution Avenue, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
TV advertisements that will run statewide the week of the December 7 run-off are the final phase of a $3 million nationwide election-year issue discussion program initiated by the National Right to Work Committee®.
The Louisiana ad will be previewed at the December 2 Baton Rouge news conference.
The National Right to Work Committee®’s aim is to boost ongoing efforts in Congress to repeal federal labor-law provisions under which eight million private employees, including thousands of Louisianans, are forced to pay union dues or “fees” as a condition of employment.
Before the November 5 elections and during the last few weeks, the nearly 34,000 Right to Work members in Louisiana have flooded their Senate candidates’ offices with phone calls, letters and postcards asking them to support forced-dues repeal.
At the news conference, Mr. Fusaro will announce how the two candidates in the run-off, Incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu and her challenger, Suzanne Haik Terrell have responded, and discuss the Right to Work group’s next move.
A National Right to Work act would remove the federal authorization for forced union dues which, because of the supremacy of federal law, restricts the freedom of many employees even in Right to Work states such as Louisiana.
The position of Louisiana’s next U.S. Senator may prove critical to efforts to abolish the congressionally-imposed loopholes in Louisiana’s Right to Work law.
State officials have no power to close loopholes that authorize the firing of Louisiana airline employees, railroad employees, etc., for refusal to bankroll a union.
It’s an issue that your U.S Senate candidates must address.
My staff and I hope you will cover this press conference. We will be in touch with you soon to follow up.
Sincerely,
Kirsten Andersen
Director of Communications