For Immediate Release 

September 16, 2015

Lawmakers who vote to override Governor Nixon’s veto will strike a blow for freedom

Today at a veto session in Jefferson City, Missouri lawmakers will gather to consider overriding Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of right-to-work.

Center for Worker Freedom and Americans for Tax Reform strongly urge lawmakers to support the override.

The Center for Worker Freedom's Executive Director Matt Patterson guest hosted two podcasts on the Grover Norquist Show to talk about right-to-work laws and the decertification of unions. 

Click here to listen to his interview with Heritage Foundation scholar James Sherk.

By Julie Lucarelli

Debunking Union lies about Right-to-Work Laws

There is a lie being spread across America by unions that right-to-work laws reduce wages. “Unions chant right-to-work for less!” to intimidate lawmakers from supporting right-to-work (RTW) laws, which give people the choice to opt out of union membership and dues. These laws have been passed in 25 of our 50 states.

Non-RTW states have a significantly higher percentage of union members. This means less money for union bosses. No wonder they hate RTW laws.

On August 3, 2015, Katy Grimes reported in the FlashReport that the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) Visalia Regional Director Silas Shawver is leaving his post, bound for a job in another part of the state government. 

Shawver’s been the main prosecutor of the Gerawan farm workers in Fresno who have been working for years to decertify the United Farm Workers (UFW).

Recently the CWF was quoted exclusively in the Washignton Times. Jeffrey Scott Shapiro quoted our executive director, Matt Patterson, in his piece, "United Farm Workers, founded by Cesar Chavez, in standoff with Gerawan Farming" that was published Wednesday, August 19, 2015. 

Shapiro quoted Patterson in part as saying, "these workers know what they’re doing. They don’t want to give their money to the unions, and even more important, it’s about freedom. The union wants 3 percent of their pay.”

Sean Higgins, writing for the Washington Examiner, recently quoted the CWF in an August 12, 2015 piece.

“Matt Patterson, executive director of conservative Center for Worker Freedom, said the $15 minimum wage movement is mostly driven by unions. ‘The Obama administration and the Democrat Party — dependent on the millions of dollars that unions funnel to progressive causes and candidates every election cycle — are clearly being wagged by that particularly rabid dog.’"

On August 3, 2015, Connor Wolf of the Daily Caller reported on the ongoing legal battle for the local right-to-work option in Kentucky. Wolf quoted our executive director, Matt Patterson, in the piece.

“Matt Patterson, executive director for Center for Worker Freedom (CWF), is optimistic the courts will side with the counties.

“We’ll have a decision sometime in September,” Patterson told The DCNF. “We feel very good about what is happening in Kentucky.”