Center for Worker Freedom Launches a Digital Ad Campaign in California

Center for Worker Freedom

722 12th Street NW Suite #400

Washington, D.C. 20005

 For Immediate Release                                                                        

December 3, 2014            

Fresno – More than one year has passed since the workers at California-based Gerawan Farming voted to decertify the United Farm Workers (UFW) union from their workplace.  However, the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) locked up those ballots and refuses to count them in direct violation of the workers’ First Amendment rights to speech and assembly.

To alert Governor Jerry Brown to this continuing injustice perpetrated by his labor board, the Center for Worker Freedom (CWF) is launching a state-wide digital ad campaign encouraging Californians to write the Governor and ask him to protect the rights of these workers.

The campaign will feature a series of ads and banners directing viewers to a new website, CountTheVotesCA.com, which provides instructions on how to send Governor Brown a personalized, prewritten letter urging him to act, as well as background information on the workers and their struggle.

Satirizing the poster for the movie The Silence of the Lambs, one ad reads “The Silencio of the Latinos…Now Playing in Sacramento” and depicts Governor Brown wearing Hannibal Lecter’s mask. Another ad depicts an image of a polar bear and urges Californians to consider the First Amendment an endangered species in their state.

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CWF is a special project of Americans For Tax Reform dedicated to educating the public about the costs and consequences of unionization. 

 Contact: John Kartch                                                              

 Phone: (202) 785-0226

 Email: jkartch@atr.org