The Center for Worker Freedom (CWF) was featured in a profile by Politico on October 30.

Highlighted was the successes of CWF in helping to defeat the United Auto Workers (UAW) in the representation election for Volkswagen last February. The UAW lost in a 712-626 vote.

According to Politico:

“The (CWF) campaign culminated in a radio advertising buy in the run-up to the election, with the organization running ads in about 10 radio stations, and 13 revolving billboards with various anti-union slogan.”

When discussing why CWF became involved in a campaign in that region in the first place, CWF Executive Director Matt Patterson explained, “There’s a perception among a lot of people [in the South] that, ‘We’re a right-to-work state, we don’t have union problems, it’s not a big deal here,’” Patterson said. “And in fact that’s not true.”

Americans for Tax Reform President, Grover Norquist, thinks that these campaigns are crucial and that stopping ground level union organizing is important because the National Labor Relations Board will make decisions favoring unions:

“Because Obama lost his supermajority in the Senate and lost the House, he can’t pass legislation. But he can, through places like the NLRB and others, actually change the law. You’re seeing an effort to do more private-sector organizing when the rules are skewed against workers and for the union leadership.”

Center for Worker Freedom is a special project of Americans for Tax Reform.

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