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</font></div><div><div class="header" style="position: relative; margin: 12px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="hgroup" style="margin: 12px 0px;"><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 12px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Fellow</font></h2></div></div><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">F. Vincent Vernuccio is a senior fellow at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He served as the Mackinac Center's director of labor policy between 2012 and 2017.</font></b></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vernuccio is a graduate of the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Mich. Under President George W. Bush he served as special assistant to the assistant secretary for administration and management in the Department of Labor.</font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vernuccio has published articles and op-eds in such newspapers and magazines as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Times, National Review, Forbes and The American Spectator. He has been cited in several books, and he is a frequent contributor on national television and radio shows, such as "Your World" with Neil Cavuto and Varney and Company.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vernuccio is a sought-after voice on labor panels nationally and in Washington, D.C. and as a regular guest on Fox News channels.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has advised senators and congressmen on a multitude of labor-related issues. He testified before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and Labor Policy.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vernuccio lives in Ann Arbor, Mich.</font></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><div class="header" id="article_header" style="position: relative; margin: 12px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="hgroup" data-edit-button="article" data-id="21157" style="margin: 12px 0px;"><h1 style="margin: 12px 0px;"><span class="balance-text"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How Right-to-Work Can Make Unions Stronger</font></span></h1><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 12px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="balance-text" /></font></h2></div><div class="byline" data-edit-button="article_authors" data-id="21157" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mackinac.org/bio.aspx?ID=645" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">F. Vincent Vernuccio</a>&nbsp;on March 26, 2015 at 2:50pm</font></div></div><span class="edit-wrapper" data-id="21157" data-edit-button="article_body" style="position: relative; display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body" data-field="body" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-to-work is not for or against unions. In fact, the only effect of right-to-work on collective bargaining is that it takes away a union’s ability to get a worker fired for not paying them.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1999 Robert P. Hunter, a Senior Fellow in Labor Policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, created the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mackinac.org/2334" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">Spectrum of Government Intervention in Organized Labor</a>. On one side of the spectrum was government outlawing unions, labeling them a criminal conspiracy. On the other side was forcing all workers to be members of a union.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
Hunter, taking a Goldilocks approach, said that the preferred place for government intervention in organized labor was in the middle: neutrality. Hunter maintained that government should not force or forbid anyone from joining (or associating with) a union.<a title="click to enlarge" href="https://www.mackinac.org/media/images/2015/spectrum.jpg" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;"><img src="https://www.mackinac.org/media/images/2015/spectrum.jpg" alt="click to enlarge" width="100%" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0px;" /></a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While right-to-work is not completely neutral — workers can still be&nbsp;<a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/right-to-work-isnt-the-only-option-one-or-none-also-gives-workers-unions-choice/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">forced to accept representation</a>&nbsp;from a union and employers are still obligated to negotiate with a union — it is a step closer to Hunter’s ideal.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With right-to-work, unions, workers and employers can still bargain over wages, hours, working conditions and everything else they typically bargain over.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The difference is that with right-to-work a union must earn the dues of its members.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By proving their worth to their membership and making them compete, right-to-work can make unions stronger. Combine this competition with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/20127" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">right-to-work states adding more jobs</a>&nbsp;— meaning there is more opportunity for union jobs&nbsp;— and the result is that union membership may&nbsp;<a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/union-membership-collapsing-in-forced-union-states/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">grow faster in right-to-work states</a>&nbsp;compared to non-right-to-work states.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2014, the right-to-work state of Indiana tied with the non-right-to-work state of Colorado for adding the most union members in the country. Both states&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/27/brett-healy-and-f-vincent-vernuccio-michigans-righ/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">added 50,000</a>&nbsp;new union members each, according to data from the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>. The state that lost the most union members was the non-right-to-work state of Washington, which lost 55,000 members.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ratio of which group of states adds more union members varies each year. In 2012, right-to-work states&nbsp;<a href="http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/18250" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">added 39,000</a>&nbsp;new members and non-right-to-work states lost 390,000. Other years, like last year, forced-unionism states come out ahead.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even union officials are starting to take notice of the fact that right-to-work can help unions thrive.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Gary Casteel, secretary-treasurer for the United Auto Workers&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/01/why-harris-v-quinn-isnt-as-bad-for-workers-as-it-sounds" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">recently noted</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 12px 20px;"><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I've never understood [why] people think right to work hurts unions … To me, it helps them. You don't have to belong if you don't want to. So if I go to an organizing drive, I can tell these workers, 'If you don't like this arrangement, you don't have to belong.' Versus, 'If we get 50 percent of you, then all of you have to belong, whether you like to or not.' I don't even like the way that sounds, because it's a voluntary system, and if you don't think the system's earning its keep, then you don't have to pay.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A year after Michigan passed its right-to-work law, Doug Pratt, director of member and political engagement for the Michigan Education Association,&nbsp;<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131212064911/http:/www.livingstondaily.com/article/20131209/NEWS01/312090009/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">said that</a>&nbsp;right-to-work caused his union to increase their efforts to “explain to our members why membership is of value,” and that “We’re stronger because of it …”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Likewise John Beck, an associate professor in Michigan State University’s School of Human Resources and Labor Relations told the&nbsp;<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131212064911/http:/www.livingstondaily.com/article/20131209/NEWS01/312090009/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">Livingston Daily:</a></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 12px 20px;"><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131212064911/http:/www.livingstondaily.com/article/20131209/NEWS01/312090009/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">“There’s an imperative now that really demands that unions pay more attention to [member engagement] than they have in the past. In that way, I don’t think that, by its very nature, [right-to-work is] the death knell. In fact, some would argue that it’s actually going to be kind of a needed shot in the arm.”</a></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-to-work has little effect on collective bargaining, but can have major effects on the efficacy of union representation.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="line-height: normal;">(Editor’s note: A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/right-to-work-no-impact-on-collective-bargaining-but-can-make-unions-stronger/" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;">version of this article</a>&nbsp;first appeared on the Web site of the Illinois Policy Institute.</em>)</font></p><hr style="border: 0px; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); height: 1px; padding: 0px; margin: 23px 0px 24px;" /><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Related Articles:</font></b></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/22953" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Free The Unions — Let Workers Who Don't Pay Represent Themselves</font></a></b></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/public-safety-workers-in-michigan-now-enjoy-right-to-work" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public Safety Workers in Michigan Now Enjoy Right-to-Work</font></a></b></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/a-look-at-unions-in-michigan-five-years-after-right-to-work" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Look at Unions in Michigan, Five Years After Right-to-Work</font></a></b></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/kentucky-becomes-nations-27th-right-to-work-state" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kentucky Becomes Nation’s 27th Right-to-Work State</font></a></b></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/national-labor-expert-right-to-work-just-the-beginning-for-missouri" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Labor Expert: Right-To-Work Just the Beginning for Missouri</font></a></b></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/after-decades-of-little-change-why-are-so-many-states-going-right-to-work" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.125s ease 0s, color 0.125s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Decades of Little Change, Why Are So Many States Going Right-to-Work?</font></a></b></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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text-decoration-line: none;">The Coordinated Campaign Against Worker Freedom</a></font></h3>
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By F.<span style="font-weight: bold;">Vincent Vernuccio</span>&nbsp;| Contributor ... states have&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">created</span>&nbsp;unconstitutional "takings" of&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">unions</span>' property - namely, ...&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Michigan</span>&nbsp;state Rep.</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAcQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFSgAMAJ6BAgHEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bUgGn7ZeOcwJ:www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-coordinated-union-campaign-against-right-to-work-laws.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:bUgGn7ZeOcwJ:www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-coordinated-union-campaign-against-right-to-work-laws.html%2B%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDABegQICBAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a href="https://cei.org/blog/michigan-state-legislator-introduces-workers-choice-bill" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cei.org/blog/michigan-state-legislator-introduces-workers-choice-bill&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjACegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://cei.org/blog/michigan-state-legislator-introduces-workers-choice-bill" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cei.org/blog/michigan-state-legislator-introduces-workers-choice-bill&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjACegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://cei.org/blog/michigan-state-legislator-introduces-workers-choice-bill" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cei.org/blog/michigan-state-legislator-introduces-workers-choice-bill&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjACegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Michigan State Legislator Introduces Worker's Choice Bill ...</a></font></h3>
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text-decoration-line: none;">Union members deserve democracy - Detroit News</a></font></h3>
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F.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Vincent Vernuccio</span>&nbsp;and Geneva Ruppert Published 12:03 a.m. ET May 11, 2017 ... Personal computers, cellphones and the internet had yet to be&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">invented</span>. ... Even with right to work,&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Michigan's</span>&nbsp;public employees deserve more rights.</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAQQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFSgAMAR6BAgEEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:siQRmC6fEZIJ:www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2017/05/11/unions-democracy/101536916/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:siQRmC6fEZIJ:www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2017/05/11/unions-democracy/101536916/%2B%26cd%3D4%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDADegQIBhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/01/26/michigan-union-membership-dipped/97108546/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/01/26/michigan-union-membership-dipped/97108546/&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/01/26/michigan-union-membership-dipped/97108546/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/01/26/michigan-union-membership-dipped/97108546/&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/01/26/michigan-union-membership-dipped/97108546/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2017/01/26/michigan-union-membership-dipped/97108546/&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAEegQIBBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Michigan union membership dipped in 2016 - Detroit News</a></font></h3>
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House&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bill</span>&nbsp;4003 applies right-to-work to government&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">unions</span>, while ... Order (10988), which&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">created</span>&nbsp;right-to-work for federal employees.</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFSgAMAd6BAgCEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/18054+Vincent+Vernuccio+who+pioneered+anti-union+legislation+in+Michigan&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQHzAGegQIAxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/21157" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mackinac.org/21157&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAHegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/21157" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mackinac.org/21157&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAHegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/21157" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mackinac.org/21157&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAHegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">How right-to-work can make unions stronger – Mackinac Center</a></font></h3>
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A year after&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Michigan</span>&nbsp;passed its right-to-work<span style="font-weight: bold;">law</span>, Doug Pratt, director of member&nbsp;...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAEQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFSgAMAh6BAgBEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:https://www.mackinac.org/21157+Vincent+Vernuccio+who+pioneered+anti-union+legislation+in+Michigan&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQHzAHegQIAhAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/national-labor-expert-right-to-work-just-the-beginning-for-missouri" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mackinac.org/national-labor-expert-right-to-work-just-the-beginning-for-missouri&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAIegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/national-labor-expert-right-to-work-just-the-beginning-for-missouri" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mackinac.org/national-labor-expert-right-to-work-just-the-beginning-for-missouri&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAIegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.mackinac.org/national-labor-expert-right-to-work-just-the-beginning-for-missouri" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mackinac.org/national-labor-expert-right-to-work-just-the-beginning-for-missouri&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAIegQIARAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">National Labor Expert: Right-To-Work Just the Beginning for Missouri ...</a></font></h3>
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing:&nbsp;<s>pioneered</s>&nbsp;‎| ‎Must include: ‎</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Vincent+Vernuccio+who+%22pioneered%22+anti-union+legislation+in+Michigan&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQ5t4CMAh6BAgBEAg" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">pioneered</a></font></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAAQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFSgAMAl6BAgAEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="display: inline; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQFjAJegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; 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<div class="TbwUpd" style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 2px; display: inline-block;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan...union.../1751361/</cite></div><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Vincent+Vernuccio+who+pioneered+anti-union+legislation+in+Michigan&oq=Vincent+Vernuccio+who+pioneered+anti-union+legislation+in+Michigan&aqs=chrome..69i57.1721j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b9" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQ7B0wCXoECAAQAg" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQqR8wCXoECAAQAw" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="">Dec 6, 2012 -&nbsp;</span>F.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Vincent Vernuccio</span>: ... F.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Vincent Vernuccio</span>&nbsp;Published 4:18 p.m. ET Dec. ... A state's right-to-work&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">law</span>&nbsp;is just one component of a raft of pro-growth tax and&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">labor</span>&nbsp;policies. ... But others will reasonably ask: why&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">Michigan</span>, and why now? ... 165,000 new jobs were&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">created</span>&nbsp;in the state since the end of 2009 and&nbsp;...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><b>Rightwing alliance plots assault to 'defund and defang' America's unions</b></font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Conservative campaign aims to strike ‘mortal blow’ on government unions</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">&nbsp;‘A once-in-a-lifetime chance to reverse the failed policies of the American left’</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Ed Pilkington in New York</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">&nbsp;@edpilkington</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><b>Wed 30 Aug 2017&nbsp;</b>05.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 30 Aug 2017 12.11 EDT</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">&nbsp;Teachers in California protest against a Wisconsin law affecting public-sector collective bargaining. Union membership among public-sector workers is about 35%.</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">]</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><b>Rightwing activists across the US have launched a nationwide campaign to undermine progressive politicians by depriving them of a major source of support and funding – public sector unions.</b></font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><b>A network of conservative thinktanks with outposts in all 50 states has embarked on a “breakthrough” campaign designed to strike a “mortal blow” against the American left. The aim is to “defund and defang” unions representing government employees as the first step towards ensuring the permanent collapse of progressive politics.</b></font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">
</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">The campaign carries a powerful echo of the populist creed espoused by Donald Trump. The president was propelled into the White House last November after unexpected victories in several previously Democratic rust belt states including Michigan and Wisconsin, both of which have endured withering attacks on trade unions in recent years.</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">
</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">The new assault is being spearheaded by the State Policy Network (SPN), an alliance of 66 state-based thinktanks, or “ideas factories” as it calls them, with a combined annual budget of $80m. As suggested by its slogan – “State solutions. National impact” – the group outlines an aim to construct a rightwing hegemony throughout the US, working from the bottom up.</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">
</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">To do that, it first has to sweep aside the public sector unions and their historic ties to Democratic and progressive politicians<b>. In a 10-page fundraising letter, part of a set of documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy and published by the Guardian today for the first time, SPN sets out its mission in frank language that does not disguise its partisan ambitions.</b></font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><b>The author of the letter, SPN’s president and CEO Tracie Sharp,describes the $8m “breakthrough” campaign as a “once-in-a-lifetime chance to reverse the failed policies of the American left … We are primed, right now, to deliver the mortal blow to permanently break its stranglehold on our society.”</b></font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Sharp pitches the battle against unions as the start of a war on progressive politics, with the ultimate goal of winning elections for rightwing candidates. “Big government unions are the biggest sources of funding and political muscle for the left – and a major obstacle to the ability of voters to reclaim control of American government. To win the battle for freedom, we must take the fight to the unions, state by state.”</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">
</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#000000">The target of such union-bashing, she openly admits, is to “defund and defang one of our freedom movement’s most powerful opponents, the government unions”. The long-term objective is to “deal a major blow to the left’s ability to control government at the state and national levels.&nbsp;<b>I’m talking about permanently depriving the left from access to millions of dollars in dues extracted from unwilling union members every election cycle” (emphasis in original).</b></font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">
</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><b>SPN will be discussing its anti-union and anti-left agenda on Wednesday at its annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Its morning session will look at how “labor reform” can be pursued with renewed vigor under the Trump administration.</b></font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">
</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">The discussion will feature some of the key architects of SPN’s political strategy, including&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Vincent Vernuccio who pioneered anti-union legislation in Michigan, and Tom McCabe of the Freedom Foundation,&nbsp;</span>who has sent his foot soldiers on an aggressive offensive against collective bargaining in the US north-west.</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">
</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">Mary Bottari, deputy director of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) which tracks the rise of rightwing groups in America, said the fundraising letter and other SPN documents published by the Guardian cast light on the conservative game plan. “It’s very rare to catch conservative thinktanks talking so openly and blatantly about their long-term political aims. These documents reveal to us that SPN’s goals are entirely political – they have no concern for workers or union members, their only goal is winning elections to advance rightwing causes.”</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000">
</font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><b>Bottari added: “An $80m campaign to ‘defund and defang’ public sector unions is remarkable, both in its size and in its ambition.”</b></font></a></p><p id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#000000"><b>...</b></font></a></p></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">=</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">ref</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://yyy.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/10/union-killers-freedom-foundation</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Steven Greenhouse in Seattle</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Thu 10 Mar 2016 07.00 EST Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 15.50 EDT</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">&nbsp;Washington state has passed union-backed progressive legislation recently, enacting a $15 an hour minimum wage.]</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">For several months, Shawna Murphy, a home-based childcare provider in Seattle, had received a stream of emails, letters and robocalls – some two dozen of them – telling her she had the right to stop paying union dues.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Then early one afternoon, while the six children in her charge were napping, a man with a briefcase knocked on her door. At first Murphy thought he was a lawyer, but then she realized he might be a state inspector of childcare providers. So she opened the door.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“He said there’s this supreme court case that will impact me, and he pulled out this leaflet and told me that I don’t have to be part of the union and don’t have to pay union dues,” said Murphy, a member of the Service Employees International Union. “I told him, ‘I’m a proud supporter of the union, and you can leave now.’”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Unions brace for supreme court case that could shake up powerful political force</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">&nbsp;Read more</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The man was one of the many foot soldiers in a highly unusual offensive against public-sector unions in the US north-west. A conservative group, the , has dispatched activists to visit the homes of more than 10,000 childcare and home-care workers in Washington and Oregon to advise them that under a two-year-old supreme court decision, they can opt out of paying union dues.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Tom McCabe, chief executive officer of the fast-growing foundation, funded by a web of conservative groups, said: “My goal is to provide freedom to union members and to give them a choice about whether or not they want to belong to a union.”</b></font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#000000">But labor leaders and their progressive allies say the group’s goals go far beyond that. Washington state in particular has passed union-backed progressive legislation recently, enacting a $15-an-hour minimum wage and a law that will allow Uber drivers to unionize. They say the Freedom Foundation’s unorthodox tactics are part of a grand plan to weaken unions and their treasuries, sap their political influence and ultimately flip Washington and Oregon from Democratic to Republican.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Freedom Foundation TV ad: Mary Jane took back her freedom.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“The Freedom Foundation says they care about workers, but what they’re really about is defunding unions and defunding the left in our state,” said Aaron Ostrom, executive director of Fuse Washington, a statewide coalition of progressives. “They see this as the best tactic to turn Washington from a blue state to a red state.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Labor leaders say never before have they seen a foundation undertake such an aggressive, multi-pronged campaign against unions; nor have they ever seen such canvassing to advise workers about quitting their unions</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Labor leaders predict that if the foundation succeeds in weakening public-sector unions in Washington and Oregon, conservatives will roll out similar campaigns in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Labor officials say the foundation is part of a nationwide conservative, dark money network, with the <b>Koch-backed State Policy Network, a 50-state free-market group, helping to finance the foundation.</b></span></font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The foundation’s tactics go well beyond door-knocking. It has made public records requests to numerous counties to obtain the names and addresses of home-care and childcare aides. It does podcasts that rail against unions and sponsors a website, , telling public-sector workers they can quit their unions.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last December, the foundation sent activists dressed as Santa Claus to stand outside government buildings, where they told workers they could give themselves a holiday gift by exercising their right not to pay that portion of union dues that goes to political activity. The foundation has also filed myriad lawsuits and complaints against public-sector unions, challenging everything from their ability to speak to newly hired government employees to their failure to file all required political spending reports</span>.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#000000">“I have to give them credit, they’re pretty nimble,” said Greg Devereux, executive director of the Washington Federation of State Employees, part of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (Afscme). “They get to attack all day long. They don’t have to be for anything. It’s fun for them to go after SEIU [Service Employees International Union], the Washington Education Association [a teachers’ union] and Afscme. We’re three of the major political players in the state, and they get to attack 24/7, 365 days a year.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></b></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Northwest Accountability Project, fighting back against would-be union busters.</b></font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Unions are so concerned about the foundation’s efforts that they have created a new organization, the Northwest Accountability Project, that seeks to expose and discredit the foundation. It, too, has made hard-hitting videos, and it has gone house to house in Tom McCabe’s neighborhood to distribute flyers attacking him as an extremist. The Accountability Project has also made disparaging robocalls to McCabe’s neighbors and church congregants.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">McCabe says the foundation is misunderstood – and wrongly vilified. “The focus that we have is on helping union members, informing union members that they have a constitutional right to leave their union if they wish,” he said. McCabe was referring to a<b> 2014 supreme court decision, Harris v Quinn, which ruled that it violates the first amendment to require partial public employees, like home-care aides and home-based childcare workers, to pay union dues.</b></font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">McCabe decried Washington and Oregon laws that require government workers to pay so-called fair-share fees to the unions that represent them even when they refuse to join the union. “They’ve gotten the legislature to require that if you’re a union member, the government takes money out of your check every month and sends it to the union, and there’s nothing you can do about it,” he said.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">&nbsp;Labor bosses are the single greatest threat to freedom and opportunity in America today</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Tom McCabe, Freedom Fund</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">McCabe denied that the foundation’s goal was to defund the left. “Personally and professionally, that’s not a priority to me.” He said defunding the left might be “an ancillary benefit” of the foundation’s campaign to educate workers about their rights.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">But in a fundraising letter last August, McCabe indicated that his foundation’s goal was indeed to defund and defeat public-sector unions – in part to undo Democratic control in the north-west.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“Labor bosses are the single greatest threat to freedom and opportunity in America today,” he wrote. “By taking money from hard-working, dues-paying Americans, they’re funding a broken political culture in states like Oregon and Washington.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">His fundraising letter added: “The Freedom Foundation has a proven plan for bankrupting and defeating government unions through education, litigation, legislation and community activation.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Noting that his group has expanded its efforts from Washington into Oregon, McCabe continued: “We have crossed the Columbia [river], and we won’t be satisfied with anything short of total victory against the government union thugs.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>In a January speech in Oregon to the Koch-backed group , Anne Marie Gurney, the Freedom Foundation’s Oregon coordinator, declared: “Our No 1 stated focus is to defund the political left.”</b></font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#000000">Convinced that the Freedom Foundation is partisan, 18 labor unions and progressive groups have asked the Internal Revenue Service to strip the foundation of its tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status. “The Freedom Foundation is operated for the private benefit of the Republican Party and other conservative and libertarian groups,” the groups wrote. “The fact that the Freedom Foundation is a 501(c)(3) is ridiculous,” said Jaxon Ravens, chairman of the Washington state Democratic party. “McCabe is a Republican political operative.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“They’re strong and they’re getting stronger,” Ravens added. “There’s a ton of money out there that rightwing groups can dump into these efforts.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">But Freedom Foundation officials deny that they are partisan or are flouting IRS regulations. “We didn’t violate any laws,” said James Abernathy, the foundation’s general counsel. “They take things out of context. They tell half-truths.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“Our goal is not to help a political party,” McCabe added. Then, referring to union members, he said, “Our goal is to help people who we believe are being held in bondage against their will.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Before taking the foundation’s helm, McCabe headed the Building Industry Association of Washington, turning it into a political and lobbying powerhouse during his two decades there.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Seattle Times wrote that under McCabe, the builders association “became virtually synonymous with GOP politics in the state, spending nearly $11m on conservative candidates and causes from 2002 through 2010”.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Under McCabe, the group described the former Washington governor Christine Gregoire, a Democrat, as a “heartless, power-hungry she-wolf”.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">In 2008, the Washington attorney general sued the association for failing to report all political spending, and it ultimately paid $242,000 in fines. After tensions erupted over the association’s politicking, McCabe resigned, leaving with a $1.25m severance package</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Just as unions abhor the Freedom Foundation, the foundation detests the labor-backed Northwest Accountability Project. “It’s been set up to harass us, intimidate us and stop us,” said Abernathy, the general counsel.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The flyers it distributed to McCabe’s neighbors decry his “record of failure” and “rightwing agenda”, accusing him of “campaign finance violations” and “wasting millions on extreme politics”. Its robocalls say McCabe’s foundation is funded by “out-of-state billionaires who want to keep wages low, eliminate paid sick leave” and slash education funding.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">His wife, Susan, was so upset that she wrote a letter to neighbors defending her husband, slamming the Accountability Project’s “four-page page glossy hit piece” and saying: “It is disappointing to see unions resort to harassment and intimidation.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>The Accountability Project organized a protest at Wells Fargo bank in Seattle to protest that one of its executive vice-presidents, Jeffrey Grubb, is a trustee of the Murdock Charitable Trust, which has donated heavily to the Freedom Foundation.</b></font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“They attack our CEO and a board member,” Abernathy said. “They’re using traditional union intimidation.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">What especially galls some Freedom Foundation officials is that public-sector unions use members’ dues to help elect government officials, who, they say, become too generous in collective bargaining.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“You lose the adversarial nature of the negotiations when the government, the employer on one side of the table, supports and was supported by the union on the other side,” Abernathy said. “They’re a giant lovefest between each other.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">But Devereux, president of the state employees’ union, called that pure fiction. If negotiations are such a lovefest, he said, why did 110,000 state employees have to endure a seven-year pay freeze from 2008 to 2015?</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Freedom Foundation boasts that 55% of the home-based childcare providers in Washington have stopped paying union dues. But the union representing the state’s childcare providers, SEIU Local 925, said many providers were already not paying dues when the foundation began its campaign. Local 925 officials acknowledge that 600 of the 7,000 home-based providers represented by the local have stopped paying dues in response to the foundation’s campaign.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Kathy Miller, a childcare provider, said she opted out of paying dues “because I didn’t appreciate having the union strongly suggest whom I should vote for in every election.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">“To be fair,” Miller added, “in the beginning the union did help, but as time went on, it became crystal clear that they were all about collecting dues money to get more Democrats elected.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Labor leaders point to an irony in the Freedom Foundation’s canvas – when labor organizers knock on workers’ doors as part of a unionization drive, company officials and conservatives frequently complain that “union thugs” are intimidating workers and violating their privacy.</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Mary Kay Henry, the SEIU’s national president, says the Freedom Foundation is weakening workers and not just unions. “I look at this as an attack on workers who are trying to come together to improve their lives,” Henry said. “It’s a direct assault on childcare workers who have invested in an organization that has lifted them to a better life – from a sub-minimum wage to minimum wage and now to a salary above minimum wage with paid time off. And now they’re door-knocking and saying, ‘Do you want to save $30 a month to buy your kids’ shoes?’ That enrages me.”</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Murphy, the Seattle childcare provider, acknowledged that she was sometimes frustrated that her union hasn’t achieved more for the workers. But rather than consider quitting, Murphy said: “We need, a bigger union because that will help us bargain better.”</font></a></div></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:C-693DqUL8YJ:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/12/06/michigan-right-work-union-economy/1751361/%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi6g5jEuPzdAhUPu1MKHdYwCAUQIDAJegQIABAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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