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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">died 2007</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">wiki</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Norwood was a staunch supporter of tight immigration control, and "called for putting nearly 40,000 troops on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border" title="Mexico–United States border" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S.-Mexico border</a>. He co-wrote a provision to the recent Deficit Reduction Act that bars illegal aliens from getting Medicaid."<sup id="cite_ref-WP-obit_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Norwood#cite_note-WP-obit-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Washington Post</a></i> wrote the following in a summary of his career:</p><table class="cquote" role="presentation" style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 20px; vertical-align: top; border: none; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 40px; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.6em; padding: 10px;">“</td><td style="vertical-align: top; border: none; padding: 4px 10px;">Rep. Norwood worked throughout much of his career to pass a patients' bill of rights, aimed at giving people better access to health care and greater ability to sue insurers. Over a decade, the bill passed through the House twice, but it failed after compromises needed to avoid a presidential veto caused Rep. Norwood to lose support in Congress. He reintroduced the bill before leaving Washington [in February 2007].<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">He<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> criticized government intrusion into personal and business practices and was one of 33 House members who voted against renewing the Voting Rights Act [in 2006], arguing that it discriminates against Southern states over long-past racial transgressions.<sup id="cite_ref-WP-obit_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Norwood#cite_note-WP-obit-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[2]</a></sup></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><h2 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.667em; margin-bottom: 0.667em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Litigation</font></h2><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Its recent litigation efforts include an attempt to strike down a California law prohibiting the use of tax dollars for anti-union activity, and litigation to overturn county “Peace Agreement” ordinances.<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#14" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">14</a>
</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Chamber recently filed amicus briefs in <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/press-releases/press-releases/editorial-memo-workers-anticipate-reversal-of-rights-from-bush-appointed-labor-board.html" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">two significant cases before the National Labor Relations Board</a> to argue for rulings that limit the ability of workers to form unions. One case could define millions of workers as supervisors, revoking their right to organize, and the other could effectively quash the card check method of organizing.<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#15" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">15</a>
</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Chamber has also lobbied the Bush administration on nominations to the National Labor Relations Board,<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#16" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">16</a> and succeeded in placing one of their staffers on the Board. In 2002, President Bush appointed Michael Bartlett, then Director of Labor Law Policy for the Chamber, to sit on the five-member Board in a recess appointment that lasted nearly one year. </font></li></ul><h4 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.909em; margin-bottom: 0.909em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sponsoring propaganda</font></h4><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For decades, labor-community coalitions have joined together to hold corporations accountable for their treatment of employees. Recently, the Chamber published <a href="http://www.uschamber.com/publications/reports/06union_campaigns.htm" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">a briefing book</a> aimed at attacking the motives and methods of these so-called ‘corporate campaigns.’<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#17" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">17</a> The author, Jarol B. Manheim, a George Washington University political scientist, not only villifies corporate campaigns, but finds danger in any critique of the corporate world. Manheim previously testified about the subject before Rep. Norwood’s House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections in 2002,<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#18" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">18</a> and also serves as a <nobr><a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/#" id="FALINK_1_0_0" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">consultant on</a></nobr> anti-union matters, having written a confidential “Positioning Memo” to help Verizon in its intense efforts to fight its employees’ union activity.<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#19" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">19</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Chamber is reportedly behind the launch of a new, aggressive propaganda campaign against unions by <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0603,hunter,71775,24.html" target="blank" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">“notorious DC lobbyist” Richard Berman</a>. In February 2006, <a href="http://futureoftheunion.com/?p=2606" target="blank" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">with the assistance of Chamber labor lobbyist Randel Johnson</a>,<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#20" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">20</a> Berman created the <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=25&Itemid=212" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">Center for Union Facts</a>, a new front group responsible for a steady stream of anti-union TV commercials and full-page ads in major daily newspapers. </font></p><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for Union Facts’ legislative agenda is strikingly similar to the Chamber’s. Berman has admitted to launching the Center for the purpose of halting workers’ ability to form unions through card check and to support the Chamber-backed Secret Ballot Protection Act sponsored by <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/chamber-of-commerce.html#norwood" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">Charlie Norwood</a>, which would outlaw the currently voluntary card check process.<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#21" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">21</a> Berman also recently divulged to The Wall Street Journal that the Center was formed to “wage a campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act,” <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/employee-free-choice-act/latest-updates-102/" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">bipartisan legislation</a> that would require employers to recognize unions formed by the card check process, which the Chamber also adamantly opposes.<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#22" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">22</a>
</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman has utilized Chamber connections for fundraising. Berman told The New York Times that he asked Chamber of Commerce officials at a state conference to recommend that businesses in their states donate to his anti-union campaign.<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#23" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">23</a> Berman has declined to say <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12991631/" target="blank" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12991631/" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">who has pumped $3 million</a>into his group, beyond claiming that funding comes from corporations, foundations, trade associations, and individuals.<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#24" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">24</a> Randel Johnson has repeatedly denied any Chamber funding of the Center, yet admitted “he had served as an adviser to the Center.”<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#25" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">25</a>
</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman does have longstanding ties with the Chamber, having served as its labor law director, planning union avoidance strategies for the organization from 1972-74.<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#26" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">26</a></font></li></ul><h4 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0.909em; margin-bottom: 0.909em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Connections to players in the anti-union movement</font></h4><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A number of key players in the conservative movement have worked for the Chamber, including Grover Norquist, who served as the Chamber’s chief speechwriter in the 1980s.</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Chamber does not pursue its anti-union agenda alone, it coordinates with a number of players in the anti-union movement. For instance, it participates in Grover Norquist’s Alliance for Worker Freedom “Labor Reform Working Group” meetings. The agenda of the December 2005 meeting of this group focused on a range of union-related issues, including card check, project labor agreements, and the Department of Labor’s new database on union information.<a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/sources-20080727-592-273-273.html#27" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">27</a> Attendees included <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=25&Itemid=212" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">Richard Berman</a>, along with representatives from the Chamber, the DOL, the anti-union Associated Builders and Contractors, Senator Bill Frist’s office, and Rep. Charlie Norwood’s office.</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You'd think a group called the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) would be dedicated to promoting the needs and desires of America's workers. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, CDW spreads half-truths and lies about the <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/employee-free-choice-act/home/" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">Employee Free Choice Act</a> to wage an ill-conceived assault on the rights and opportunities of millions of men and women across the country. </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's the real scoop on the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace...</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDW is a front group for business associations, industry lobbying groups, and right-wing policy centers who are against workers getting a fair shake in this economy. Its financial backers include some of the most virulent anti-worker and anti-union organizations in the country, including:</font></p><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding-left: 2em; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/" target="self" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a>, the nation’s most powerful business lobbying organization,</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a group whose biggest member is <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/wal-mart/" target="self" title="Wal-Mart" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">Wal-Mart</a>, the poster child for low wages,</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">and the Associated Builders and Contractors, an association of anti-union contractors who fight against workers having unions to improve their wages and safety on the job.</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDW is doing the dirty work for CEOs and corporate special interests. Too ashamed to be fighting publicly against policies that would provide workers with real economic opportunities, these companies instead use their <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/center-for-union-facts/bermans-front-groups.html" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">deep pockets</a> and <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/chamber-of-commerce/" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">powerful influence</a> to fund CDW’s dishonest PR and lobbying campaign.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CEOs and multimillion dollar <nobr><a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/#" id="FALINK_3_0_2" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">business industry</a></nobr> groups backing CDW don’t care about democracy or privacy. They’re distorting the truth because they want to stop workers from having a better standard of living, access to health care, job security, and the rest of the benefits that accompany union membership. These same groups oppose everything from paid sick days to fair pay and even the hugely popular Family and Medical Leave Act. It's unbelievable that business interests would suddenly care about privacy now, when corporations increasingly monitor employees’ every move – including <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/eye-on-the-nlrb/editions/employers-can-ban-union-related-email-says-nlrb.html" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">e-mail</a>, phone calls, personal belongings, and even <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/eye-on-the-nlrb/editions/big-brother-nixes-happy-hour.html" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">interactions outside of the workplace</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDW spreads misinformation. Contrary to the lies and distortions displayed in CDW’s new TV ad and on its website, the <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/employee-free-choice-act/home/" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">Employee Free Choice Act</a> does not take <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/employee-free-choice-act/resource-library/secret-ballots-arent-enough.html" target="self" title="Secret Ballots Aren't Enough" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">secret ballots</a> away from workers. The legislation instead offers employees an alternative to the current, broken system that is slanted heavily in favor of management against workers. In fact, the bill would ensure that workers can choose their own union formation process, either through <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/employee-free-choice-act/resource-library/why-majority-sign-up-is-needed.html" target="self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">majority sign-up</a> or a National Labor Relations Board election.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDW’s own data and research is flawed. Instead of using well-respected academic research and public opinion <nobr><a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/#" id="FALINK_1_0_0" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">surveys</a></nobr> to test the merits and support for the Employee Free Choice Act, CDW released a poll in April 2008 claiming widespread opposition to the bill. However, even the most conservative political scientists and pundits could easily review the poll’s loaded questions and determine that it <a href="http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/04/fallacies_of_literalism.php" target="_self" style="color: rgb(40, 105, 148); text-decoration: none;">in no way accurately tested</a> the public’s perceptions on the issue.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 18.004px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">05/21/2001 - 00:00</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On May 10, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Educ. & the Workforce Committee held a hearing on workers' rights not to become union members and not to pay dues for unions' nonrepresentational activities and to investigate how union bosses abuse such rights under the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court decision Communications Workers of Am. v. Beck. Beck held that employees covered by a union security clause in a collective bargaining agreement who choose not to become union members and object to having their dues spent on political and other nonrepresentational activities only can be charged agency fees for union activities related to collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Based on the evidence I have seen, I am convinced that some union locals do, in fact, regularly trample on the rights of individuals in far excess of the scope of their permissible authority," Subcommittee Chairman Charles Norwood (R-Ga.) said. "Too many workers seem to get the run-around when they try to exercise their rights."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles Norwood Communications Workers of America (CWA) International Association of Machinists (IAM) International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Union Corruption Update Michael Nelson's blog Read more</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Norwood Holding Program Accountable</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Submitted by Michael Nelson on Mon, 06/29/1998 - 00:00</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Labor Department's removal of Guess? Inc. from its list of apparel manufacturers and retailers that have voluntarily taken steps to ensure their goods are not made in sweatshop conditions drew criticism at a Jun. 19 congressional hearing. The so-called "Trendsetters List" came under scrutiny as part of an ongoing congressional review of the agency's program administration and law enforcement efforts. At issue is whether the Labor Department acted arbitrarily in designating companies for the list, possibly running afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How department officials decided which companies met its criteria for inclusion on the list was the focus of the hearing by the Education & the Workforce Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations. Rep. Charles Norwood (R-GA), who chaired the hearing, questioned both the agency's decisions as to which companies to place on the list as well as its subsequent move to put Guess on "probation." </font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div>