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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Advocacy group did not consider all the facts 4/2/08 - A Center for Union Facts spokesman said bad teachers who leave a school simply go to another, but is that a correct assumption? Firedoglake: Greedy Troglodytes Attack Teachers 3/13/08 - Who stands to make tons of money off this campaign? The egregiously misnamed Center for Union Facts is the money-making entity pushing the campaign. The organization is another front group by sleaze propagandist Richard Berman. The Flint Journal: Worst teacher contest nothing more than smear 3/30/08 - It's smarmy. It's disingenuous. And it has absolutely nothing to do with improving education. The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union advocacy group, has just launched a smear campaign against teachers' unions. The Arizona Republic: Group hired to smear teachers 3/15/08 - The anti-public-education group Center for Union Facts is spending $1 million to defame the associations that advocate for teachers, support professionals, and our children. Las Vegas Sun: Watch out teachers, Rick Berman is back 3/11/08 - Rick Berman, a Washington lobbyist and adman who has attacked Mothers Against Drunk Driving, tobacco opponents and advocates of healthier food, unveiled a multi-market, $1 million ad campaign today aimed at discrediting teachers unions, painting Los Angeles Times: Chamber of Commerce vows to punish anti-business candidates 1/8/08 - Alarmed at the increasingly populist tone of the 2008 political campaign," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue said his organization "would spend in excess of the approximately $60 million it spent in the last presidential cycle" to de The Huffington Post: 2007 Eye on the Right 12/30/07 - Rick Berman is quite a guy... Through the highly abrasive Center for Union Facts, he runs newspaper ads attacking the labor movement... The Advocate: Collective bargaining for teachers 12/13/07 - The chamber has an ax to grind. Its job, after all, is to look out for the ideological and economic interests of its business owner members, not to further the well-being of society. Las Vegas Sun: Watch out, Berman is coming! 11/3/07 - Richard Berman has attacked Mothers Against Drunk Driving, tobacco opponents and advocates of healthier food. His next seemingly benevolent target: teachers and the unions that represent them. Boston Herald: Affleck's act applauded 10/23/07 - The Center For Union Facts is nothing more than a front group for individuals and industries opposed to union activity. In These Times: Unionbusting Confidential 9/24/07 - To keep out organized labor, you need the union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis. The Huffington Post: GOP's "Right to Work" vs. Your Right to Know the Facts 9/5/07 - They don't care if there is no grassroots support for their agenda... They are undoubtedly looking for praise, approval and support from Grover Norquist's network of out-of-state corporate front groups like the National Right to Work Committee. Boston Herald: Bad choice for labor 8/16/07 - So who is really afraid of the Employee Free Choice Act? A well-financed and well-organized group of coalitions and lawyers whose sole purpose is to spread misinformation. Wall Street Journal: A New Approach Is Needed for Workplace Democracy 7/25/07 - Richard Berman misrepresents Human Rights Watch's work on workers' right to organize... and the corroborating examples Mr. Berman cites are misleading. The Day: Foxwoods Loading Up The Big Anti-Union Guns 7/6/07 - Jay Leno once refused to appear at a Las Vegas convention for human resource managers in which one of the seminars, ?How To Stay Union Free,? was to be run by the renowned union-busting law firm of Jackson Lewis. TomPaine: Labor Refutes Some 'Choice' Lies 6/15/07 - Coleman is taking his talking points from organizations whose sole purpose is to roadblock access to union membership?and therefore to better wages, benefits and job security. The Birmingham News: Essay auther anti-union lobbyist 6/13/07 - It is a sad joke that The News would publish an essay by Richard Berman on Alabama legislation dealing with teacher accountability, since Berman is a vehement, anti-union, Washington, D.C., lobbyist who works extensively for big business. TomPaine: How Free Choice Act Aids Workers 5/1/07 - The over-the-top allegation, with its insinuation that union leaders would use the opportunity to pad union finances at the expense of retirees, mirrors outright lies told by such business-funded groups as UnionFacts.com, which uses television an Washington Post: A Research Center's Facts -- and Funds 4/24/07 - The April 21 letter from Richard Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, contained two blatant misstatements about the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and our work. Post-Bulletin: Anti-union ad is deceptive 3/2/07 - A radio advertisement sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reaches the height of deception as it infers that the Chamber is concerned with working for peoples' rights. The Huffington Post: Legal Unionbusters 2/25/07 - The Burke Group's hired guns are masters of misinformation, negative public relations, bureaucratic and legal stonewalling and every other means of thwarting a union drive within the law - and sometimes, outside of it.

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