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Government unions: The nation’s largest, most toxic publicly funded lobbyists
“The huge problem for the public exposed in this article by Freedom Foundation special projects director Rusty Brown is that the unions spent $778 million in 2021, a non-election year promoting left-wing candidates and causes that are harmful to the public. And to add insult to injury, most of those millions came from the taxpayers’ pockets.”
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March 13, 2023
Freedom Foundation exposes fraud in Paycheck Protection Program dues
“As Maxford Nelsen, director of labor policy at the Freedom Foundation, puts it, “Disconcertingly, the apparently inappropriate Payroll Protection Program loans may have been granted due to fraudulent loan applications or other questionable conduct by applicants or the private lenders operating under the SBA’s delegated authority to approve loan applications.”
Colorado bill would give some union protections to public employees
March 15, 2023
“Meanwhile, the Freedom Foundation ... maintained that public-sector unions are already too powerful. “Government employees in (Colorado) are in danger of having their rights trampled, as they have been in too many other government union-controlled states,” said Rusty Brown, director of special projects for the organization. ”
Oregon judge deals state early loss in dues deductions case
March 10, 2023
“U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman of Oregon granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday preventing the state’s Department of Administrative Services from deducting dues on behalf of the Service Employees International Union from a state employee who never consented to the deduction. Victoria Bright ... declined SEIU membership because she disagreed with the union’s political agenda and bargaining tactics, according to the Freedom Foundation.”
Feb. 17, 2023
“We’re doing something a little different this week: We are joined by Rusty Brown of the Freedom Foundation for a bit of government-worker union wonkery. Brown and his colleagues have been researching certain financial products that the National Education Association markets to its members, and they have many questions about how it all works and whether members are being taken for a ride.”
