Courtney Allen Curtis is a state representative from Missouri.  He is Chairman of the Special Committee on Urban Issues and the founder of North County Forever, an organization that provides social assistance in underprivileged communities. 

In his speaker biography, Curtis says he entered politics after witnessing a surge of neighborhood violence weeks after his niece was born. 

This makes it all the more upsetting now that he is the target of a vicious attack. 

For Immediate Release

January 21, 2016

Washington, D.C. – The Center for Worker Freedom announced the launch of its new digital ad campaign today targeting conservative activists in Illinois.

The video highlights Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s latest attempt to create more political corruption: building a government-owned casino in the heart of the city.  The 60-second ad portrays a taxpayer watching as her money is gambled away by an elected official and his buddy, a unionized blackjack dealer.   

It costs money to be in a union.  It costs even more to win an election. 

Union dues and agency fees, the mandatory fees non-members pay to the union, are spent on collective bargaining and, more importantly, partisan politics.     

Opening Arguments for Friedrichs

It was only about 30 degrees on the Supreme Court steps this morning, but the 200 Americans crowding the sidewalk were too fired up to notice the loss of feeling in their toes.  The flood of bodies, holding signs with phrases like ‘I Stand With Rebecca’ and ‘#WorkTogether’, rallied outside for the initial oral arguments of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (CTA). 

California teachers in desperate struggle to keep their own money

What price, free speech?

The Supreme Court’s upcoming case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (CTA) has brought an important violation of the First Amendment to our attention.

Together, ten representative California teachers are fighting the CTA and its coercive methods which force teachers to pay dues that are spent on political efforts they don’t agree with.

The Center for Worker Freedom's Executive Director, Matt Patterson, was quoted in the Captial Research Center's newsletter, Labor Watch.  Dr. Steven J. Allen’s piece, "Working Class Heroes", was published on January 5, 2016;

Matt Patterson the Executive Director at the Center for Worker Freedom was quoted in the Washington Examiner on Sunday December 13, 2015 in a piece about Labor Secretary Tom Perez’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president.