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Talking Points Memo: Republicans Tout Anti-Employee Free Choice Study -- Paid For By Big Business 03/05/09 - Sounds scary -- but what's scarier still is who paid for the study: the Alliance to Save Main Street Jobs, a front for the business lobby's heaviest lobbying hitters. The Hill: Nonprofits' spending was dominated by card-check 03/03/09 - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce ? a leading opponent of the card-check bill ? led the way by spending $36 million, according to the study. Another prominent opponent, the Employee Freedom Action Committee, spent $20 million on last year?s election. Wall Street Journal: Unions Ask IRS to Investigate Card Check Opponents 02/26/09 - The country?s largest unions are asking the Internal Revenue Service to look into one of the country?s largest antiunion advocacy groups, the Center for Union Facts. DC Examiner: Anti-worker front group rigs poll to contradict huge majority support for Employee Free Choice Act 01/25/09 - The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace has released the results from a push-poll to bolster the organization?s inaccurate claims about public opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act and certain key provisions. The New York Times: Bill Easing Unionizing Is Under Heavy Attack 01/08/09 - Intent on blocking organized labor?s top legislative goal, corporations are quietly contributing to lobbying groups with appealing names like the Workforce Fairness Institute and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace. Arkansas Times: What they're about 01/08/09 - Anti-union ads, like a recent one aimed at Sen. Blanche Lincoln, blather about the ?secret ballot,? hardly the sponsors' chief concern. They're more desirous of low wages than secret ballots. The North Platte Bulletin: Nelson: Union vote ads are confusing, dumb, sleazy 12/19/08 - "The ads cook up a stew of innuendo,? Nelson said Friday in a prepared statement about special interest advertisements on the ?Employee Free Choice Act? -- a bill that could make it easier to form workers? unions. DC Examiner: Anti-union corporate front group claims guilt by association in Illinois Governor scandal 12/17/08 - The Center for Union Facts is a front group supported by corporate sponsors who refuse to be identified. Maine Campus: Corporate funded push polls mislead public on Employee Free Choice Act 12/11/08 - This survey is clearly an attempt by big business - which more than likely paid for the survey - to mislead the public. Chicago Business: McDonald's girding for union fight 12/06/08 - [McDonald's] is also is a member of the National Restaurant Assn., which, in turn, belongs to the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace. Wall Street Journal: It's Time to Give Voters the Liberalism They Want 11/18/08 - So it may not surprise you to learn that democracy isn't really the main concern of card-check's opponents. It's unions themselves. National Journal: Stealth Group Fights Card Check 10/27/08 - Packer would not identify the WFI's funders. But sources familiar with its creation speculate that such big retailers as Wal-Mart and Home Depot -- a which are high-profile opponents of EFCA -- are likely among the group's donors. Chao, big labor disagree on bailout package The Journal News - 9/24/08 The Nashua Telegraph: Ads deceive workers on free-choice act 9/15/08 - Recent TV and radio spots paid for by Washington, D.C.-based lobbyists are lying to, and about, the working men and women of New Hampshire. NPR: Profile: Employee Freedom Action Committee 9/8/08 - The Employee Freedom Action Committee is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization run by former lobbyist Richard Berman, who also runs several other industry-funded nonprofits. The Oregonian: The lobbyist behind the anti-union campaign 9/8/08 - Berman's specialty is to act as a front man for business interests who would like to aggressively go after their opponents, but don't want their fingerprints attached. The Wall Street Journal: Happy Labor Day. Drop Dead 9/3/08 - The destruction of the labor movement by tactics like these is a big part of the reason why wage-earners no longer rise as the economy grows, and why some day soon we will speak of the great middle-class nation in the past tense. Seacoast Online: Make sure to get the facts behind political ads 8/20/08 - Millions of dollars are feeding the coffers of television and radio stations in both states, bombarding the airwaves with ads that are long on scare tactics and short on factual information. Seacost Online: Groups lodge anti-union campaign 8/17/08 - The Center for Union Facts was founded by Richard Berman, a Washington lobbyist. According to a 2006 USA Today profile, Berman is not only responsible for fighting the anti-union battle, he has also taken on Mothers Against Drunk Driving, groups working to take trans fats out of foods and those fighting to increase the minimum wage. Northwest Labor Press: Anti-union ads target Congressional candidates 8/15/08 - A well-funded anti-union group continues to target U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley because of his strong ties to the union movement and his support for labor?s top priority in Congress, the Employee Free Choice Act. The Lexington Herald-Leader: Union-bashing disguised as concern for workers 8/15/08 - Kentucky's workers and voters should recognize that the recent rash of anti-union TV and radio ads are nothing more than propaganda intended to divert the attention of the electorate from the critical issues of the day: health care, good jobs, education, trade, retirement security, energy security and the war.

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